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Award Recognizes Lay Devotion to Church

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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Dec. 26, 1974 I'IIICE 15c Vol. 18, No. 52 © 1974 The Anchor $5.00 per par

The Marian Medal, a special award given annually to lay persons of the Diocese of Fall River who have distinguished themselves in service to the Church will be given on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 29, at three o'clock in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

His Excellency, the Most Rev. Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall Rliver will bless the medals and then confer the award to a group of 74 lay men and women from all sections of

Papal. Message Celebrating Day of ,Peace, January 1 WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope Paul VI has called for active pursuit of a peace founded on "a reconciliation of hearts" and mutual human understanding and has deplored the arms race which, he said, seeks peace "through the terror of unheardof destruction and suffering."

The Pope's caN for a peace that is "neither passive nor oppressive" but "inventive, preve.ntive and operative" came in his annual message for the Celebration of the Day of Peace, observed internationally by Catholics on Jan. 1. The Pope's message was made public in the United States by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Addressed to "all men of good will," the message entitled "Reconciliation-The Way to Peace."

Beoause "generations succeeded generations," peace based on faithfulness to "the fundamental 'laws of society" will endure only

on condition that the young "are unceasingly educated in the dis' cipline of order for the common good and in the ideal of peace," Pope Paul said, adding: "From this point of view, making peace means educating to peace."

Although "the whole of civilization" has admitted the fundamental principle that "all men are brothers." the Pope said, the causes of confHnct still exist.

Therefore, he said: "Peace must be made; peace must be produced; peace must be invented.'

It must be created through an ever watchful disposition, with a will ever fresh and untiring."

'Pope Paul recalled the Second Vatican Council's words: "Peace must he born of mutual trust between the nations rather than imposed on' them through fear of one another's weapons." He noted too the council's warning that government officials work Turn to Page Two

the Diocese of Fall River.

The Ordinary of the Diocese will then address the congregation and close the ceremonies with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

The exquisite silver medal has a raised image of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal with the Latin inscription "0 Mary conceived witJhout sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."

The 1830 date designates the year of the apparition to St. Catherine Laboure.

The back of the medal has the seal of the Diocese of FaU River which was established i.n 1904.

The recipients are:

"Tl'aditionally, in times of economic stress, such programs as those in the fields of alcoholism and drug abuse have been among the first to feel the edge of the budget-cutting ax. This mayor may not be true in the present situation. In any event, we will all have to share in the general belt·tightening and put every last ounce of effort into making the funds we .have to work with count."

Sen. Hughes said that a massive national undertaking involved in alcohol and drug prob' lems is like waging a war, "and, like any war, the waging of the conflict affects those who participate, often in ways that were not foreseen." '~We have, in effect, a new civiHan army that has now become institutionalized," Sen. Hughes said. "The 'alcohol and drug industrial complex' is not as powerful as its militaryindustrial counterpart, but nonetheless there are some striking similarities. We have a growing body of trained and skilled counselors who are the soldiers in the field. We have the everenlarging structure of scientists, 'think tank' personnel, administrators, governmental funding agencies, lobbyists, assodations, consultants, evaluators, technical assistants, and so on. A huge and influential industrial empire produces most of the substances we are engaged in trying to control.

"T-he whole development was inevit,able and there is nothing intrinsically wrong with it as long as we can preserve our perspective, humility, and professional integrity. '~Constant self-analysis is necessary."

Cape Cod and Islands Area Mrs.Charles L. Bardelis, 3 Stone WaH Lane, Falmouth Mrs. John A. DeBettencourt Jr., County Rd., Oak Bluffs Mrs. Helen Carron, Route 6A, North Eastham Mrs. Edmund Grafton, 81 Blanid Rd., Osterville Mrs. Fred Haussmann, 53 Her· itage Circle, Teaticket Turn to Page Two

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Joseph M. Amaral, 764 County St., Seekonk John J. Cavanagh, 25 Lafayette St., North Attleboro Dr. Carl J. DePrizio, 43 North Main St., Mansfield Mrs. Walter Gelinas, 150 Willis Ave., Seekonk Raymond Guillette, 12 Thirteenth :St., Attleboro Raymond E. Lambert, Sr., 230 Elm St., North Attleboro Mrs. Marcel Lariviere, 14 Carrier Ave., South Attleboro Conrad Maigret, 140 Patterson St., Attleboro Mrs. Lena Ringuette, 601 South Washington St., North Attleboro . Mrs. Roland Smith, 42 Ricard St., Seekonk

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Preparatio.n Within Diocese Observances Area-Wide

Sees Fight Against Alcohol, Drugs Massive National Undertaking SAN FRANCLSCO (NC).- If humanity cannot conquer drug abuse and alcoholism in the same way it did polio and tuberculosis, it should at least "educate, minimize the danger, and make sure the measures we take don't compound the problem," Sen. Harold E. Hughes (D.-Iowa) told 4,000 delegates to the North American Congress on Alcohol and Drug Problems here.

"Obviously, the status of our national effort with respect to alcoholism and drug abuse must be viewed in the context of the geneml state of the nation," Hughes said. "From the standpoints of the economy, the international situation, and the present disarray of public health and social programs in the country, we know we are facing a winter of hard choices.

Mrs. Leo G. Yelle, North Worcester St., Norton

With ilie solemn opening of the Holy Door of Saint Peter's iB~silica on Christmas Eve, His Holiness Pope Paul VI has for· mally inaugurated the special time of renewal and reconciliation in the Universal Church, Holy Year 1975. During the Ad· vent Season, just ended, an intense. program of local prepara' tion for the rich graces of the Holy Year has been conducted in the Diocese of Fall R'iver.

His Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, designated a number of parish churches in various geographic sections of the Diocese as "pilgl4image centers" during Advent, and thousands of Diocesan clergy, religious and laity participated in special services during which the anticipatory prayers of prepamtion for the Holy Year itself were recited, and at which the Gift of the Holy Year Indulgence was gained.

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HOLY DOOR MECHANISM: At the tap of the papal hammer, the Holy Door in the Vatican was opened with pulleys Dec. 24 in a scene similar to this one photographed on Christmas Eve., 1949, when Pope Pius XII inaugurated Holy Year, 1950. The 1975 Holy Year ceremonies were telecast to a worldwide audience. NC Photo.

Father James F. Lyons. Pastor of Saint Mary's Parish in Taunton, described the progmtn conducted in the greater Taunton area as most rewarding. ~pecial evening Masses were conducted at Saint Mary's Church, with the local Dean Monsignor Maurice Souza, with Father Gerald Shovelton, Pastor of Saint Ann's ParTurn to Page Sixteen

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THE ANCHOR--Diocese of Fall River-'-Thurs. Dec. 26, 197..

Pope Asks World Reconcil iation Continued from Page One in vain at building peace "so long as feelings of hostility, contempt and distrust, as well as racial hatred and unbending ideologies, {:ontinue to divide men and place them in opposing oamps."

Echoing the council's caB for education "in fresh sentiments, of peace," the Pope said: "Minds must be disarmed if we wish effectively to stop the rec ourse to arms which strike bodies. It is necessary to give to peace, that is to say to all men, the spiritual roots of ,a common form of t'hought and love."

Although the "interiorization of peace" has begun and although "peaceful concord among men is spreading. 'throJgh the progressive discovery of the complimentary and intllrdependence of countries," tt e Pope said, he also noted "tha t today new forms of jealous nationalism are being affirmed, enclosed in manifestations of touchy rivalries based on race, langu3ge and traditions" and "sad si~uations of poverty and hunger, remain."

He continued: "Powerful economic multinational expressions . are ar-ising, full of selfish antagonisms. Exdusive and arrogant ideologies are being organized, into social systems. Tel'ritorial conflicts break out with frightening ease. And above all, there is an increase in the number and the power of murderous weapons for possible catastrophic destruction, ,such as to stamp terror with the name of peace.

Warning "Yes, the world is progressing toward its unity, but even as it does so there increase the terri'fying hypotheses which env路isage more possible, more easy and more terrible fatal c1ashesclashes which are considered, in certain circumstances, inevitable and necessary, and called for, as it were, by justice."

Warning that, "there is something not functioning proplerly in the monumental machine of our

civilization," the' Pope said: "This machine could explode in an indescribable conflagration because of a defect in its con路 struction ."

The defect, he said, is insufficient use Of "the spiritual ele' ment," which has to be used and ,applied "in order to make it cap, able not only of impeding confl.icts among men and predisposing them to peaceful and civil.. ized sentiments, but also of pro.. ducing reconciliation among those same' men, that is of generating peace."

Containment of wars, suspension of conflicts, truces and armistkes, definitions of boundar路ies and relationships, the bal- . ance of terr6r are not enough, the Pope said. "An imposed peace, a utilitarian and provisional peace 'is not enough. Progress' must be made towards a peace which is loved, free ~nd brotherly, founded, that is, em a reconciliation of hearts."

Reconciliation In a section of his message, addressed to Catholics, the Pope oaNed f.or reconciliation first of all with God. "For us believers there can be no other way to peace than this. Indeed, in the definition of our salvation, reconciliation with God and our peace coincide; one is the cause of the other.r' Reminding Catholics that reconciliation with God "is the work of Christ" who "is our peace," the Pope said that "a logical and' necessary consequence" of tJiis truth is that "we must perfect the sense' of our unity - unity in the Church, unity of the Church" or'in other words "mystical, constitutive communion" and "ecumenical restoration of the unity' of all Catholics." .

The 'Pope cautioned against seeking to escape "these' inevitable demands of communion with Christ~reconci'liaHon and peac~by clinging to long familiar positions which are in conflict with Christ's Church" and urged ~ach Catholic to "make a new iandsincere contribution to the i filial, humble' and positive buliding up of this Church."

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'In prepal'atiop for the feast of I! Christmas, children at Nazareth I, HaH, FaH River, participated in I a day of recoHection stressing I the Christmas message of peace II and reconciliation.

I, Sharing their days off with the children and faculty of Naz:- I! areth, Rev. Brian Manning, Rev. I David Chandonet and Rev. John I, SuHivan, young priests of the .Boston archdiocese, conducted the ,program, beginning with a I, carol sing and a brief homily on II the meaning of Christmas. ' The opportunity for individual II confessions foHowed and the I morning ended with a Bible !ier路 I' vice on the themes of peace and I happiness.

II Penance, Peace I! Following lunch, students par.. ticipated in the celebr,ation of ..

Mass. In a homily, Father Man.. I ning discussed the peace result.. ing from the cleansing power of' the sacrament of penance, pointing out that "when the two n's ,in 'penance' are removed, representing the nO'no's of sin, wha.t is left is 'peace:"

RECONCILIATION THEME: The annual Week of' Pra~7er for Chris~m Unity Jan. 18-25, features this reconciliation theme as expressed on posters. Graymoor Fathers, who sponsor the Week, say, "In addition to its primary goal of bringing Christians of every denomination together in common prayer . . . the Week has made Christian unity im understanding goal to millions of people at the grass root:; level." NC Photo.

To Confer 74, Marian Medals Continued from Page One Mrs. HelenM. Perkins, 275 Barlows Landing Rd., Pocasset Mrs. Norman Rose, Dyer Rd., Truo Mrs. Keith E. Songer, 38 Puritan Rd., Buzzards Bay Mrs, Alfred Volton, 12 Prince St., Provincetown Mrs. Alhert G. Wagda, Willwood Rd., West Brewster Fall River Area

Victor Aguiar, 246 Eagle St., Fall River Mrs. Yvonne J. Cordeiro, 56 , Necrology Third St., Somerset JAN. 4 Mrs. Joseph A. Correia, 45 HarRev. Eugene -L. Dion, 1961, vard St., Fall River Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, Fall Edward F. Darcy. 293 Kilburn German Diocesan River St., Fall River JAN. 6 Press Needs I~elp Fred R. Dolan, 965 Plymouth Rev. James F. Roach, 1906, BONN (NC) - The German , Ave" Fall River Founder, Immaculate Concep- Catholic di<>c~san press, which Armand R. Gagnon. 96 Brayton tion, Taunton rose from its destruction by the Ave., Fall River JAN. 7 Nazi regime to' flourish from Mrs. Joseph Gromada, 1144 Rev. Alfred R. Forni, 1970, 1948 to 1972, is now facing fiSouth Main St., Fall River Pastor, St. Francis of Assisi nancial difficulties, the director Leo R. Hamel, 72 Woolley St., New Bedford' , of the Germ'an Catholic news Fall River JAN. 8 agency KNA said here.

Dr. Anne Marie Higgins, 302 Rev. Alfred J. Carrier,' 1940, Until two years ago, the 22 Highland Ave., Fall River Founder, St. James, Taunton' diocesan papers, one for each, Dennis C. Hurley, 90 Winter St., Rev. John Kelly, 1885, Found- diocese, were all healthy; said Fall River er, St, Patrick, Fall River Konrod Kraemer, KNA (Kath- Mrs. Joseph Jennings, 888 PleaRev. Arthur C. Lenaghan, olische Nachrichten-Agentur) disant St., Fall River ' '1944, Cpaplain, United Mates rector. During the 1948-72 peri- Mrs. Eva Laliberte, 99 Ivanhoe Army , od; diocesan papers were' able Ave., Somerset, JAN. 10 to turn over to their dioceses, William Mello, 36 Tucker St., Rev. Jourdain Charron, O.P., , which are the publishers, a total ,Fall 'River 1919, Dominican Priory, Fall of 40 million marks (about $13 Miss Claire O'Toole, 3 Forest River million).

St., Fall River Rev, George H. Flanagan, But now, there is a certain Mrs. Rudolph Ouellette, 75 1938, Pastor, Immaculate Con- stagnation, Kraemer said. AI-, Broad St., Fall River ception, FaIl River though the decline of the dioc- Paul J. Parente, 452 Gardner's esan press has' stopped and the Neck Rd., Swansea papers may be able to continue Marianno Rezendes Sr., Elm St., THE ANCHOR as they are for 'a few more Second Class Postage Paid at ,,11 River, Assonet .

Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 years, some are saying that they Mrs. Albert J. Roy, 930 Bedford Highland Avenue, Fall Rliver, Mass. 02722 would like to I have back the St., FaH River by the Catholic Precs 01 the Diocese cl Fall money they ga~e to the dioceses Mrs. Leonard J. Shea, 346 BufRiver. Subscription price by mall, po~tpJld in the {last. , $5,00 per year. fington St., Somerset

Manuel S. Silva, 87 Carter St., FaH River Mrs. ~rank S. Swass, 996 Bay St., Fall River Joseph A. Tinsley, 543 High St., Somerset' New Bedford Area Romeo Aubut, 44 Buttonwood Rd., South Dartmouth Mrs. Louis Bono, 465 John St., New ,Bedford Mrs. Leon Branchaud, 304 Milford St., New Bedford James E. Butler, 1868 Shawmut Ave., New Bedford Walter Carter, 17 Studley St. , New Bedford Edmund Copach, 240 Princeton St., New Bedford Antone DaLuz, 437 MainSt., Fairhaven Mrs. Arthur Denault, 1695 Drift Rd" Westport Arthur Fredette, 2155 Acushnet Ave., New Bedford ' A. Gordon Goodfellow, 448 Co~rt St., New Bedford Mrs. Maurice P. LaF:rance, 4 Eric Rd., North Dartmouth Mrs. Oscar LeBlanc, 119 Holly St., New Bedford Mrs. Gerald P. Louis, 68 Borden St., New Bedford Miss Mary Machado, 323 Tinkham St., New Bedford , Edward Martin, 14 Springhill St., Fairhaven Roger J. Menard, 71 Sycamore St., New Bedford Marcel G. Morency, 37 EHen St., New Bedford Mrs. Stanislawa Pykosz, 44 Emery. St.; New Bedfclrd Mrs. Joseph Roszkiewicz, 96 HoHy St., New Bedford Walter Silvia, 109 Pleasant St., Fairhaven Lionel Tetreault, 50 - Coloumbe St., Acus):m~t

Moderns Sickened

By Prosperity VAl1ICAN CITY (NC)-Modern-day prosperity is causing nausea among people today who are looking for a "messianism of the spirit and' not of material abundaoce," Pope Paul VI told a weekly general alldience recently.

Pope Paul said in a half-filled audience hall: "This modern world of ours is showing' uncon.. sciously in itself ,symptoms of II messianism which is unsalis.. fied and painfully straining toward an unsatiated hope in a messianic coming." oJn his first general audience during Advent, the Pope said that society's current "unrelenting uneasiness over political and C{:onomic changes and over the mirage of continualIy new revolutions" is a sign of man's "hopeless expectation for a superiqr order which man himself cannot create except by repressing 'the free expression of man himself."

Major Superiors Publish Directory WASHINGTON (NC) - The Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM) has published ' a 1975 directory of its officers, committees and the more than '250 major superiors of men's Religious orders in the United States. ""111'1111'''''''''''1,,''11''11111'11111'''11111111111'11111111111111;'111"""'111111111111111111111111'1",.'

Taunton Area Mrs. Dona'id Bergeron, 114 Foundry St., South Easton Louis Dansereau, 179 Washington St., Taunton Mrs. Francis Ferreira, 86 Forest St., North Dighton Miss Bernice Fountain,. 1235 North Main St., Raynham Mrs. Thomas Grandfield, 40 Donna Terrace, Taunton Joseph R. Neault, 1041 Burt St., Taunton John J. Pikul, 64 Davis St., Taunton' Joseph D. Raposa, 9 Claire Terrace, East Taunton Mrs. Mary Vaz Souza, 31 Briggs St., Taunton Mrs. Wilhelmina C. Torres, 259 Main St., Dighton

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Dec. 26, 197.4

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EVENTS WITH IMPACT: These were some of the events with impact in 1974. Top row: Cardinals testify on abortion issue; Lutheran seminarians "exiled" from Concordia; female Episcopal priest offers Mass; hurricane hits Honduras; thousands join March for Life; tornados strike Midwest;

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busing causes racial strife in Boston. Bottom row: Controversial baptism .held in Boston; referendum allowing divorce passes in Italy; and priest arrested in Korea in anti-government protests. NC Photo.

World Hunger Top Issue of Bishops' Conference and Nation WASHINGTON ~C) - For Americans 1974 began with fuel shol"tages, dragged through a summer of discontent with prices spiraling and the nation moving toward the impeachment of its President - a c 0 u r s e ended abruptly by his resignation-and ended with a growing awareness of a worldwide food crisis that threatens tbe lives of millions.

As the year was ending, the food crisis, with its immense human dimensions, began to emerge as the top religious concern of 1974.

The U.S. bishops dramatized that concern at their November meeting here when they pledged to fast two days a week and urged others to do likewise as part of a pastorial plan to meet the crisis. But they carried their concern much furtber: characterizing the equitable distribution of food as a matter not simply of charity but of fundamental justice, they pledged an ongoing. fight to change the food policies of the U.S. government.

No. I Story Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Catholic Conference (NCCB - USCC), unhesitatingly marked world hunger as the number one issue "both in the (bishops') conference and across the country."

But ·if food-or the worldwide lack of it-topped religious concerns in 1974, there were anum· ber of issues and events vying for second place.

-A new fascination with the devil swept America in the early months of the year as "The Ex·

orcist" opened in theaters across the country-only to die down as a consensus quickly emerged that the movie was more a horror story than a religiously significant event.'

-Two Jesuit priests and a rabbi got frequent headlines during the presidential impeachment proceedings: Father Robert Drin· an (D.-Mass.), who had intro· duced the first impeachment resolution in the House, was a leader of the pro-impeachment forces during the nationally televised House Judiciary Committee hearings; Father John McLaughlin, presidential speechwriter, became famous as "the White House priest" for his ardent defenses of Nixon's morality and world leadersbip; and Rabbi Baruch Korff led a last-ditch effort to keep Nixon in office by stirring public opinion, in his favor.

Evangelization -On a world scale evangelization captured the attention not only of Catholics but of many other Ohristians. ConservativeEvangelical denominations held a World Evangelical Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the 1974 World Synod of Bishops in Rome discussed the topic extensively for a month.

-Human rights also occupied churchmen's attention around the world in 1974, leading to Church-state confrontations in several countries. Bishops in Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, and Rhodesia were among those who challenged their governments to re.Jease political prisoners or change repressive policies. Bishop Daniel Tji Hak Soun was arrested and convicted in South

Korea after he spoke out against government repression of civil rights. In the United States, the USCC took a high profile on U.S. involvement in such countries, repeatedly working through congressional and diplomatic chan· nels to urge the American government to foster human rights through its economic and diplomatic policies.

-The United Nations' World Population Year, which was climaxed by a World Population Conference in Bucharest, Ruma· nia, highlighted the differences between rich and poor nations on attitudes toward family planning, birth control, abortion and population policy. The Vatican delegation, however, was the only group to disassociate itself from tbe conference's recommendations although it joined in the meeting's main conclusion, a strong emphasis on social justice and international development.

The Vatican delegation opposed the emphasis on family planning being promoted by most of the rich nations at the conference.

Vatican on Abortion -In December the Vatican issued a lengthy statement forcibly reiterating the Church's position that abortion is fundamentally evil. In the United States the letter reinforced the multi-level anti-abortion activities of the American bishops.

-The U.S. hishopsalso showed a strong concern for moral values, or the lack of . ~hem, in American society-to the extent that this ranks as the second major concern of the American bishops today, according to Bishop Rausch. At their

November meeting the bishops established a committee to draft a national pastoral letter on the subject after hearing a report on the situation today. They accepted a number of action recommendations aimed at instilling a new sense of moral values among the nation's Catholics.

Several major events in 1974 contributed to the bishops'. concern for moral values, among them: The continued revelations of Watergate, which brought a new national sou.J"searching on questions of. public morality; the ongoing battle by opponents of ahortion, including congressional testimony by four cardinals when the Senate opened hearings on a buman life amendment; the new surfacing of racial tension in Boston as the 1974-75 school year opened under court ordered busing for racial integration. The bishops also saw widespread dishonesty and irresponsibility, sex· ual immorality, divorce, and the prevalslnce of secularism as signs of a need for new moral sensitivity.

The Church's teaching on sex and marriage came under attack on two fronts in 1974: homosexu· aJi:ty and divorce.

Divorce Question Despite vocal Church opposition, the people of Italy voted overwhelmingly to allow divorce in their country. Theologians and Church lawyers in many parts of the world, particularly in the United States, repeatedly urged the Church to change its practice and allow divorce in cases where the marriage is "irretrievably dead." The Ohurch was accused of treating divorced per·

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sons as "second-class citizens" in its pastoral approach, and several dioceses tried to approach the problem of too-casual or immature marriages by setting up special guidelines for teen-age marriages.

Homosexuals picketed the Detroit archdiocesan chancery of· fice after an opinion column by a young homosexual, Brian McNaugbt, was dropped from the local Catholic paper. The New York archdiocese made national headlines by opposing a proposed ordinance for homosexual civil rights in New York City. A "Guide for Confessors" that repeated the Church's traditional position on homosexuality, which was quietly distributed by the USCC, drew fire from Dignity, a rapidly expanding organization for homosexual Catholics and concerned hetereosexuals, and from the Salvatrian Gay Ministry Task Force, a group that is trying to develop more effective models for pastoral ministry to homosexuals.

Role of Women While calls for a stronger women's role in the Church continued to grow among Catholics, it was the Episcopalian Church that hit the front pages around the country when three retired Episcopal bishops ordained 11 women priests in Philadelphia in July. In August, at a special meeting in Chicago, the Episcopal House of Bishops overwhelmingly declared their belief that the ordinations were invalid, but several of the women ,have celebrat· ed the Eucharist.

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THE ANCHO~-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Dec. 26, 197.4

Resolution' New Year's Day is usually faced with the question: What kind of a resolution to make? Even those who pride themselves on maknng no resolutions at all usually, within the privacy of their own thoughts, make some half-promise to themselves about improvement of the doing of something differently.

But this year Catholics and, indeed, all men and women of good will have a ready-made resolution presented for their' consideration and for incorporation into their lives in this new year of the Lord. It is the Holy Year resolution and theme: reconciliation.

Reconciliation takes into account all that is needed to make the world and its people work: reconciliation within oneself; reconciliation with one's God; reconciliation with one's neighbor; reconciliation with one's environment.

This is the theme that touches all bases. This is the theme that sums up within itself all other resolutions that. get the New Year off to a good start.

This is the resolution that can truly make this a New Year of salvation and peace for oneself and with all others.

C1J~ristmas There are some occasions that are silJlply too profound, too rich, to try to savor all at once or q4ickly. Some events just cannot be compressed into the short perioell of time-nor should they be. And the feast of Christmas is just such an occasion, just such an event.

The Church asks that her children spend the period of Advent in preparing for Christmas, looking forward to the greater coming of Christ into the hearts and souls of men, those who know Him and open their lives still wider to receive Him, those who may be looking at Him this time for the first time with wider vision and more intent purpose, .those who know Him very little or not at all. The q1Urch has asked that all make preparation during the days of Advent Now Christmas is here. It would never do to make it ,one day of peace and joy and happiness, one day of giftgiving and card-receiving and relative-visiting, and then to go back to a business as usual life.

The day itself is a rich one, too rich to put into a single twenty-four hour span. Indeed, all too often the day itself invites something akin to a collapse. The work of buying and. preparing and all the other activity associated with Christmas is wearing on the nerves and on the physique. The day itself can be a let-down.

So it would be well ihroughout all these days following the feast of Christmas to try to prolong the feast, to delve day by day into its riches" to try to instill ever deeper into one's daily life the peace and the spiritual :\1appiness that the feast is intended to bring into one's life.

Christmas day iself can be a time of' resolution, a time to promise God and oneself that the glimpse of what Christmas is will be encouraged in one's daily life so that its spirit may grow and be strong. These days after Christmas should contain a few miuntes of contemplation and thought, a little time put aside when the fact of Christmas is relished and savored.

Then Christmas will make a difference throughout all one's days-and that, in fact, is what it is supposed to bring about. It could well be that this time afer Christmas can be even more profitable than the time before. Because the . commercial aspect is stripped away, thrown out with the tinsel and the ribbons and the turkey carcass, and the reality can be viewed and reflected upon in comparative calm and with unimpeded mind.

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I NEW YORK (NC)-The Episcopalian rector of Trinity par:ish here hailed the canonizatioll next year of Mother Seton, I~ member of Trinity parish be~orif' her conversion to Catholicism, a;s an event "of great ecumenie~~ significance," I In a statement issued after Pope Paul • V,I announced thatII Mother ElIzabeth Ann Bayley Seton would be canonized ne:x:l Sept. 14, the rector, Father Robert Ray Parks, noted that Shl!I' "was a faithful member of Trinli ity Church before she was rei,. ceived into the Roman Catho!i;l Church in 1805" and thathdt grandfather "was an Episcopa:t priest, the Rev. Richard Charlil ton, rector of St. Andrew's, Stat, en Island," II 'Father Parks also recalled thaI; "·Elizabeth Ann Bayley was malrji ried to Willam Magee Seton b~:l the Rev. Samuel Provoost, reel tor of Trinity and Bishop of Ne~i York. January 15, 1794," anq that they "were listed as commu1; nic:mts of Trinity in the Commu' nicant Book of 1801," Their fi"~: children were all baptized .at I mrn·:1$lm~w::mt'~~:m~~~~mm~mm~;~~m~i\~imt_r~~~:f$t:~i?:f.~~~~~~f~~tt%ima Trinity,".. ,

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The Christmas Spirit 1974 The tinsel on the tree might not shine as brightly as in previous years. Daddy might be out of work or on short time standing in long lines to coilect his unemployment security.

Mother is at her wit's end trying to stretch her limited income to put food on the preying upon the sentitab)le. Older brothers and sis- while mentality that has replaced the ten; are finding it difficult religious significance of Christto get a job even with their mas. Slick advertising with the college education. And for the YOU:lg ones, the price of sugar candy is at an all time high. The stocking might be hung by the chimney with care but they will not ':>e as full as last year. Ohristmas 1974 is going to be different for cnany people in this land.

In a very real way it might be a blessing in disguise. Mter all, let's face it: our celebration of Christmas has in many situations reduced ,itself to neo-paganism.

For example, just take a look at the good old office party. The worhing gang celebration of Christmas b3S ,been reduced in many instances to one of the greatest mockeries to the entire conc2pt and meaning of the Feas~. In fact these parties for many people are a celebration in honor of the god Bacchus. Eat, drink and be merry to the fullest extent possible for the boss is picking up the tab. This is just abou: the mentality that permeates not merely the office party but also /our entire national position en regard to the meaning of Christmas.

Much of this attitude, of course, stems from crass commercialism. Capitalism at its worst. The business community of each and every hamlet has made Christmas one of their greatest commercial adventures of the year, making a fast buck

Madison Ave. touch has made people feel that they must buy gifts which in many cases are quite beyond their means.

To remedy this situation, the banking world got into the act.

One of the greatest money making gimmicks to -spring from the mind of man to' "can" people out of the money has been the almost sacred Christmas club.

For years the ·banks have made people think .they are doing them a favor by helping them to save for Christmas, all the while making a fortune themselves in their unique loan and mortgage mentality. The business world and the banking world have washed each other's hands for years to make Christmas one of the greatest profiteering adventures' in the historY of, the market place, all the while reducing the true meaning of Christmas to a mere secular feast.

While the Christian Churches ha,ve made some attempts to remedy the situation, they themselves face serious problems in their own celebration of the Feast. Again for, example, many people are afraid to attend midnight Mass at Christmas lest they be mugged on the way to church. Even in the church itself at midnigbt .they might have to encounter the party goer whQ

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I rOINCINNATI (NC)-A ninleweek course in Church-relate:d!1 careers has been developed for high schools and religious educa-II tion classes by the Archdiocesan 'I Vocation Office.

I According to Father Patrick I H. Crone, archdiocesan vocation' director, the packet of lesson Ii plans gives ~ackground informcttion on diocesan and ord.e'l" I priests, Sisters, Brothers, conltemplatives, permanent deacons and secular institutes and is supplemented by bibliographies and suggested activities, .projects and movies.

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does not realize that the party is over. The churches of this land also seem to have failed to real.. ize that the general decline iIlt the moral attitudes of our soci.. ety seem ,to be in direct relatiori 'to the breakdown in national ethical values that have plagued our national spirit.

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Their own personal fear to speak out and lead people to IBethlehem, lest they offend anyone, has heaped upon the churches the mush and mess that has replaced Christ with jolly, old St. Nick.

I Yes, Christmas might be different for many people this year I because the ornaments and deco- I rations offered to them over the I past few years by our material· !I istic mentality have become themselves tarnished and dull. II This year J!lany people are also i realizing that what they felt was the Christmas spirit was a mere II vision of sugar plums dancing in their heads. This drelj.m has now become for many Americans a confrontation with har~h real· ity. Perhaps out of this confron· tation we as a people might once more renew and restore the true meaning of Christmas -to our lives.

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World Hunger Top Issue of Bishops' Conference and Nation Continued trom Page Three in tb~ Catholic C h u r c h took place in Marlboro, Mass., when a pastor deferred the Baptism of a child because its moth· er publicly ,a.dvocated abortion rights for women. Jesuit Father Joseph O'Rourke of New York baptized the child a few days later, and his actions led to his dismissal from the Jesuit order.

Among other events and personalities 1hat made religious news in 1974: -Catholic charismatics provoked new questions about the growing movement when physi.

cal healings were claimed during a national charismatic conference at Notre Dame in June.

Nevertheless the U.S. bishops heard a· rather favorable report on the movement in November. .:......President Gerald Ford drew thanks but comments of "not enough" from many religious leaders when he proposed a program of limited clemency for draft evaders and military deserters. Many war resisters in legal jeopardy spurned the limited ,program as inadequate.

-Anglican Archbishop Mi· chael Ramsey of Canterbury one

of the leading proponents of closer Anglican-Catbolic relations, retired. He is succeeded by Archbishop Donald Coggan of York.

Youngest President -Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia ended his three·year term as president of the NCCBUSCC. Elected to succeed him was Archbi~hop Jose;:h Bernar· din of Cincinnati, who at 46 is the youngest president in the history of the bishops' twin national conferences.

Pope Paul VI issued a new rite of Penance th:lt emphasizes the

communal aspect of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The introduction to the new rite also emphasizes the social dimension of human moral responsibility.

-Cardinal Jan Wi!lIebrands, president of the Vatican's Secretariat for 'Promoting Christian Unity, visited the United States in November to celebrate the 10th anniversary of thP. Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism.

-The Vatican reestablished diplomatic relations with Cuba and established new contacts with Poland, as part of an

emerging policy of detente with communist countries.

-'Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, already in exile from his native land, was removed from his post as archbishop of Esztergom and primate of Hungary by Pope Paul VII in February. In November "the cardinal published his autobiography, "Memoirs," detaiJ.ing his trial and years of imprisonment under the Ccnnmu-' nists.-· -'Pope Paul VI announced that in 1975 Mother Elizabeth Seton wil'l become the first U.S. native to he officially declared a saint.

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-It was announced that Father Leonard Feeney, excommu. nicated two decades ago for reo fusing to go to Rome to explain his teachings on salvation, had been reconciled with the Church two years ago. Most of his small hand of followers. were accepted hack into the Church in September by Bishop Bernard Flanagan of Worcester, Mass.

-Coadjutor ArchbisbJp Leo Byrne of St. Paul-Minneapolis died Oct. 21. He had been a staunch defender of civil rights and a proponent of more rights for women in the Church.

-The teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas gained new attention as workshops and symposiums were held in many parts of the world to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the great medieval theologian's deatb.

-In Jerusalem. Melkite· rite Archbishop Hilarion Capucci was arrested and convicted on charges of gun-running.

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POPE'S ACTIVITIES: Among the more pictorial of Pope Paul VI's activities during 1974 were these: alighting from a helicopter during a visit to St. Thomas' birthplace;

Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States since July 1973, exhibited an open style of Vatican repre~;entation new to this country, us he traveled widely and spoke to diverse Catholic groups, constantly urging reconciliation and shared responsibility, a deeper commitment to justice and a renewed sense of faith.

-Inflation and tight money bit U.S. churches as hard as it hit individuals and other organizations. Numerous Catholic, Protestant and Jewish agencies were forced to limit or curtail programs. Among the most notable financial setbacks for religious groups were the loss of $15 million .by the La Salette Fathers and $3 million by the Diocese of Reno, Nev., when a trust fund collapsed; and the inability of the Pauline Fathers in Doylestown, Pa., to payoff $4.6 millions in bonds and liens on their recently huilt national shrine to Our Lady of Czestochowa.

Despite tb~ controversies and conflicts that filled 1974, Pope Paul VI at the end of the year expressed some hope that 1975 would be brighter. In an apostolic exhortation made public Dec. 16, the Pope called on all Catholics to mark the 1975 Holy Year with reconciliation and an end to the "spirit of faction" that divides men, and turn instead to receiving an Indian headdress from Michigan; meeting Cesar "a love that can understand evChavez; opening World Synod of Bishops; and accepting a erything and in Christ p:lrdon everything."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River.....Thurs. Dec. 26, 1974

Explolres Clo,s,e R,elati,onship Betw,een Humor a,nd Love There has been a great deal of comment over what is "unfunny" or "inappropriate" humor, as a result of a remark by Agriculture Secretary Butz. It's caused me to think about why some things are funny and others are not.

It seems to me there is H's okay for Catholics to joke a triangular bond between about politicians but not for a _the teller of the joke, his political figure to joke about our audience, and the subject of leader. We expect more love the joke.

That bond oan be one of mujoke to tual dislike-using hurt or disparage. While I feel

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Let's look at Butz's remark in the context of our triangle-himself, the audlience, and the ·Pope. The circumstances of his remarks in no way indicate that he deliberately wanted to disparage the, Pope. It would seem unreasonable to assume he had anything but admiration for the Pope. . So if the bond of affection is what makes something humorous, and if BUt2:'S remark was not, then the break in the triangle would haVE! to come from ithe audience ... ei'ther toward Butz or toward the Pope.

H's most complex. It doesn't, lend itself to simple answers that fit all the, ·situations. But the controversy seems to point more to a lack of love than to "bad taste."

Possibly a lack of love is the worst taste of all.

If love is an identifying characteristie of Christians, can some measure of our love be determined by what we think' is funny?

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this is debasing to the art of humor, I cannot deny that some humor exists on this level. Anyone outside the bond of dislike finds that humor offensive.

BLINDMAN'S BUFF WITH MEANING: What looks Bond of Love like a happy game of blindman's buff is more than that for More often, the triangular th€!se students at Althoff Catholic High School in Belleville, bond between speaker, audience, and the subject is a bond of Ill. In a project sponsored by the Radio Talking Book of the love. If that bond is (;omplete; national shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, volunteers exthe joke is funny. pelienced something of what it means to be blind by attendIf the bond is broken--no love ing classes with their eyes covered. Friends helped them find passing along anyone or two their way from place to place. NC Photo. sides of the triangle-the joke is in bad taste.

Let's take a few examples. if a pastor makes a joJte about Senaf10r~tJ'rg/es the bishop to his parishioners, and there is a bond of love on all three sides, it can be very American Nun Sees Her Home Better WASHINGTON (NC) - Sen. funny.

Mark Hatfield (R-Qre.) has After Living in Brazil If the bond is missinfl on one called on Americans to "willing.. side, it could be in bad baste.

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But if the parishioners know gram of fasting, savings and pri- Arina Marie Bolzan left for Bra- Bolzan said she sees the United the pastor has no use for th~ vate contributions to ease the zil in i971. to begin work as a States as a country whose people bishop, and they th(~mselves world hunger crisis. missionary, she expected to have are blessed with tremendous gifts think the bishop is incompetent, ",Failure by our government to her eyes opened about life in and riches but are bent on' acthe bond of dislike may make .increase U. S. food aid following South America. But it had never cumulating more wealth, more the joke appealing to those who the Rome Food Conference puts occurred to her, 'she said recent- goods, more gadgets, more posshare -that link. But it will be a greater responsibility on indio Iy, that her experiences there sessions. offensive to the rest of the pa- viduails to act to deJl:tons"trate wodd tell her just as much about rishioners who don't share the their concern, ... according to -But one cannot profess to be the country she was leaving. dislike. They may find the pas- Hatfield, a Senate delegate to Christian and not address himtor's remark unfunny' because While here for a three-month self to the poverty, starvation the United Nations World Food they know it was deliberately Conference in Rome and sup- "res t and recreation" period re- and suffering of so much of manused to disparage. quired of all missionaries in her kind, ,she said. porter of increased food aid.

Or another example: husband .' "It is my hope the government congregation, the Sisters of NoSpeaking of her adopted land and wife can joke a,bout their will respond when it .sees that tre Dame de Namur, Sister Bolown kids' faults. But .let a Americans do feel compassion zan reflected that she feels like of Brazil, she said, "I come from neighbor make the same com- for the miUions now starving , something .of an observer, some· a town where everyhody is thin, where we have had full-time one on the outside looking in. ment, and it becomes a (;riticism throughout the world." electricity only since 'last Christdisguised as a joke. The bond Hatfield said he hopes to see The Chicago-born nun, a for- mas, where there are only two of love is. broken. The joke is of- "permanent :changl!S in our food mer teacher in Cincinnati and asphalt- highways.'" Like so many fensive. consumption patterns throughDayton schools as well as in others in ·Brazil, it is a town in Ethnic humor seems to fit this out the coming year." her home town, emphasized that which there· is no middle class pattern. A Mbbi can tell a joke His Senate resolution also . she; s proud of her American her- and most people live the simplest about Jews to a Jewish audience called for: itage and ·willalways identify of lives by U.S. standards. and all enjoy it because all are -A period of identification s.ure of the love in the triangle. with the world's hungry through with the United States. But, she To enter the United States and But change the rabhi to a self-sacrifice and 'sharing begin- noted that much of what seems' see the contra'sts-the surplus to <:haracterize America today monsignor. If all involved know ning with Thanksg:iving Day this of food, cities totally lit up at makes her uncomfortable. the priest has a love for Jewish year; night despite talk of an energy . people, no problem. If there are -Encouragement: of the pracHow does she see the United crisis, the constant seduction of doubts, the same joke can be in tice of fasting "in connection Stat,~s after' a three-year ab- the consumer through advertisbad taste. \v,ith holiday and religious peri- sence? What do the lifestyles and ing to "keep up," stay in style, Or another example: a Cath- ods when ,the temptation is values of Americans say to the be really happy-is overwhelmolic paper recently ran a joke greatest -to spend in excess Qn your g Sister who has spent the ing, she said. about the "trash in W'ashing- foods, gifts and many non-essen- last three years trying to bring ' ton." Those who share a 'bond of tial items;" "You can't imllgine what it "'the Gospel message and a badly dislike for politicians can find -A re-evaluation of the life' needed sense of dignity to the' does to you inside" to see these it funriy. style and patterns of consump- peasant farmers in poverty- contrasts, she stated, admitting We Expect More that it is only because of her extion by the American people; 'stric:{en northeast Brazil?

Or was it hypocritical:' H apperiences in Brazil in the past -Encouragement: of using peared right next to an article money saved through fasting for . Emphasizing th.at it took first- three years ,that she has been a,bout Secretary Butz's "offen- contrihutions to· aid the world's hand experience with another "stripped of the things I was once tied to." sive" comment about the POlle. hungry. ~ulture to give her the different

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Thl~ Catholic bi~ops have i~~ sued a statement reaffirmin~~ their support for the ecumeni<:al movement on the 10tb anniver:· sary of the Second Vatican Cou.ni~ • I cil's Decree on Ecumemsm.

In the statement the bishops!

-Pledged to work to imple!r ment the "directives and 'guidlei! lines" on ecumenism issued 1I>~1 the Holy See; -Expressed appreciation fOli the work of bi.lateral consulta1! tions between Catholics and oth 1 er Christian religions; II -Praised and pledged contin, ued support fo~ the work o~ d.iocl: esan ecumemsm commiSSions and parishes in, ecumenical pr-o J' grams; II -Pledged "constant prayer fOl1i Christian unity" including taking every opportunity to participate,l in ecumenical programs, partic J ularly common prayer; II -Pledged to work with othl~rl churches in the U.S. and abroald "in resPonding affirmatively to~i human need," making particular: reference to the world fOOd 1 crisis.

I The statement praised the growth of cooperative ministries!1 between Christian churches, as" well as growing common inSigh!tS'1 into Baptism. the Eucharist and,1 ordained ministries and "the' great growth of Christ-like lovell between' members of different Christian communities."

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Nuns Asked to fast For World Hungry HACKENSACK (NC) - Mem-II bers of the Northern Province of, the - Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth have been asked t-o I: fast on the first day of each month in sympathy with the hungry people of the world.

I The 430 Sisters in the province, which· has missions in fivle I' states and the Virgin Islands., I have been inv.ited to sign a statement reading: I "In order to show my sol- I idarity with the hungry peopll~ II around the world and in these , United States, and to show my desire to consume less so that Ii others may have more, I pledge " to join with other Sisters (of !he II province) to fast on the first day I of each month."

The Sisters are also invitin{: II lay people and others to join! them .in the fast and to give any II money saved to the hungry through such agencies as y. S. , Catholic Relief Services,. the II overseas aid arm of U. S. Cath.. ' olics.

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Seek New Methods For Selecting Bishops OTTAWA (NC)-.-The National Federation of Senates of Priests. has adopted guidelines for the selection of bishops in Canada, seeking wider consultation with priests, Religious and laity.

The federation's resolution also urged that the apostolic pronuncio's function in submitting candidates for the episcopacy to the Vatican no longer be exclusive, but that the Canadian Catholic Conference he given a more active, role.

Father George Martin of the Diocese of St. John in New Br.unswick was elected president of the federation, whose annual " meetin~ wound up here Nov. 21.

Joys of Ch,ristmas 'Seas,on Repay All Preparatio,ns

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For those of us who have a weight problem, the holidays pose quite a problem. The rich desserts 'surround us, the extra drinks, big dinners, etc., that are all part of the Christmas season are ever present and tempt us to pack on those extra pounds. And let's face it, the reason we have of us tan be successful in handling the excessive weight add'ia weight problem is that we tions which are so difficult to like to eat and we like to eat handle after the New Year. Five

the wrong foods.

This is the only season of the year that I resent those people whose metabolism allows them to indulge themselves without adding any appreciable weight.

Ever since I can remember, I have always known people who can eat everything in sight without making a dent in their waist lines. On the other hand, I am one of those individuals who are prone to gain weight by merely looking at food.

Finn Resolution This year, therefore, I have to resolve to pass up the port wine, the extra slice of fruit cake, that especially sweet torte, and the extra piece of cheese. There will be no eggnog, mince pie, chocolates nor any of the fancy pastries. My New Year's resolutions will come before Christmas so that aflter the holidays are over I will not be in the position of stuflfing myself into my clothes.

Of course, I have to admit that I have promised myself this every year since I can remember and have only been partially successful at keeping my resolution. One of the reasons for dif· foiculty in compliance is that people do expect that the extra' cooking they do at Christmas wiH be appreciated and far be it from me to be rude or ungracious.

But by reasonable restrain~ all

Papal Representative Named in Mozambique VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul has established a new apostolic delegate in Mozambique, wblch has been promised independence in 1975.

Named as the first apostolic delegate in Mozambique was Msgr. Francesco Colasuonno, a native of Bari, Italy. He has served as counselor of the pronunciature in Taiwan for the past several years, filling in for the apostolic pronuncio, Archbishop Edward Cassidy of Australia. Archbishop Cassidy also serves the pronuncio to Bangladesh, where he maintains his residence.

Ends Subsidies for Nuns Social Action Agency CHICAGO (NC)-The archdiocese of Chicago has ended subsidies for a nuns' social action agency here.

The archdiocese calIed the agency's work a duplication of services. A staff member of the agency, however, said that among the reasons for the action was the belief held by many in the archdiocese that a Sister's place is in the classroom.

The Urban Apostolate of the Sisters WAS) is an independent organization which was originally founded to serve as a resource center for nuns teaching in the inner city.

pounds are difficult enough to take off but much more than that makes the excesses of the hoHdays difficult to live with.

In The Kitchen In the middle of the Christmas frenzies, as our minds boggle, our limbs ache and we wonder if everything will ever get done we often have to stop and ask ourselves what makes us believe in Chrilltmas. The folIowing are just a few observations that came to my mind, or to the minds of some of my friends when I did wonder aloud "Why do we believe in Christmas: What encounter, or feeling, or COMMITTEE FINALIZING PLANS: Mrs. Catherine Heald, St. Dominic's parish of' sense convinces us that it's alI .swansea, hospitality committee; Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, St. Louis de France parish, Swanworth the effort?

1. The beauty of our individ- sea, decorating committee; Mr. Edouard W. Lacroix, St. Dominic's parish, Swansea, usher; ua'l churches on Christmas eve Mrs. Vincent A. Coady, St. Thomas More parish. Somerset! presentee committee, meet to or morn, and the feeling that complete arrangements for the Bishop's Charity Ball to be held at Lincoln Park Ballroom cannot be seen, only felt, that on January 10. truly Christ has been born.

2. The joy on a child's face.

3. The feeling that here is the time when we can do things for others without feeling embarrassed, or overly sentimental.

Over 150 members of the vari- for the underprivileged and ex- diocese, will be the guest of honHere finalIy is a time for the ous committees of the 20th an- ceptional children. Tiokets may or and the principal speaker at thoughtful gestures it seems we nual Bishop's Charity Ball of the be obtained from Catholic the Charity Ball. Bishop Cronin never have time for at any other Roman Catholic Diocese of Fali Church rectories, members of the thanks all the benefaCtors and season.

River will meet on Sunday, Jan- Ball Committee, and from mem- committee workers of this char4. The Salvation Army kettle uary 5, at 1 P.M. at the Lincoln bers of the Society of S1. Vin- itable event for their contribuand music.

Park Ballroom to decorate the cent de Paul and Council of tion of effort and resources for 5. The smelI of cookies bakCatholic Women. Tickets will be this worthy cause of charity. elegant ballroom. ing.

The Ball will be held on Fri- available at the Ballroom on the 6. The feeling when you first day, Jan. 10. The Presentee and night of the Ball. turn the tree lights on. the Bishop's boxes will be elabMost Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, 7. The feeling you get when orately decorated. Other sections S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, now you're giving instead of receiv- of the ballroom to be decorated in his fifth year as bishop of the SINCE 1898 ing. will be the entrance, the foyer 8. Watching the children's and the entire length of the plays in which the 'littlest angel dance hall. The orchestra stage Our experience II Jour luarantee SINCE 1941 is always lie scene stealer.

Attention: Brides-To-Be will be lined in various colors of Perfect .. HapPJ L1velJ ·Ilec.ptlon WEB OFFSET . 9. The first Christmas carol cloth.

Windsor Music 993-6263 SINCE 1967 at church.

Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, Specla' MUIIe-loutlnes-Noveltlel 10. That intangible something diocesan director of the BalI, Your Wedding Day' in the air.

Remember Dance MUllc IIJ Cood Everyone, I'm s4.re, has a per- stated today that names for the Orchestras Shows sonaI list. But that is what various categories of the BishMusle-Dance_'20's-Il.ckln 70'1 makes Christmas a personal op's Charity Ball Booklet are Tony Rapp - Art Perry still being received at Ball.Head 679-5262 holiday.

Stucll? Never too late to call quarters.

410 Highland Ave., Fall The recipe is from Mrs. Robert Oliveira of Our Lady of An- River, 02720, Tel. 676-8943.

The proceeds from this social gels parish in FaH River. ColIeen, Mrs. Oliveira's daughter tells us and charitable event help to support the four Nazareth Hall it's one of her favorites.

Schools for the exceptional chilFruit Cocktail Cake dren and the four summer camps 1 cup brown sugar 2~ cups aU purpose flour Church-State Relations 2 teaspoons baking soda There's a lot to like about Fernandes Super Markets .

1 teaspoon salt Deteriorate on Malta, 1 regular size fmit cocktail Serviced Fish and Deli, Serviced In - store Bake Shops, V.ALLETTA (NC) - Churchand juice state relations on this island are Luncheonettes, Convenient Customer Rest Rooms. Try us ••.

2 eggs teetering on the brink of col. Y2 cup chocolate chips lapse.

You'll like us, tool Y2 cup chopped nuts The government has proposed 1) Mix together in a large bowl the flour, salt, baking soda, changes to the constitution that fruit cocktail, eggs, brown sugar. would rescind constitutional proexempting Catholic (Use the fruit cocktail with its visions Church leaders from the provijuice).

2) Beat with electric beater sions of civil law.

Church leaders have said that on low speed until blended and then beat on medium speed for anyone voting for the ruling 32 Stores in Southeastern Massachusetts ",Malta Labor Party is guilty. of two minutes more..

3) Fo~d in chocolate chips and a mortal sin.

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Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, nuts.

4) Put in a greased and head of the Labor party, has MONDAY thru SATURDAY floured pan for 35 to 40 minutes said that everyone should be in a 35Qo oven. equal under the law.

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LOOKING BACK ON BEATIFICATION: In a photo taken in 1965, Ann O'Neill, 18, and her mother Mrs. William O'Neill page through. a photo album containing picture taken in Rome during beatification ceremonies for Elizabeth Bayley Seton in -1963. At right, Ann holds a Seton statue. As -

a child she was cured of leukemia through the intercession of Mothelr Seton. Now Mrs. Robert Hooe of Severn, Md., Ann said she is honored because her miraculous cure was part of the process leading to the Seton canonization scheduled for Sept. 14, 1975. NC Photo_.

Mother Seton Played ~~any Roles on Road to Sanctity Blessed Mother Elizabeth Bayley Seton, designated by Pope_ Paul VI to become the fir'st canonized saint born in what is now the United States, was, in a life of 47 years, socialite, wife, mother, widow, convert, educator and founder of a religious community of Sisters.

The congregation she founded .and five others in the United States, known as Sisters of Charity, which trace theiroragins to her, now' number about 8,000 members. She established at Emmitsburg, Md. in 1810 a free school for children -of ,thEl neighborhood that is regarded as the forerunner of the U.S. Catholic parochial school system.

Fr. Dirvin At the time of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of her death in 1971, Vin:centian Father Joseph I. Dirvin of St. John's University, Jamaica, N.Y., author- of "Mrs. Seton: Foundress of ,the American Sisters CI1f Charity," said she had much to say to contemporary U.S. Catholics because "she was an Amercian woman . . . who had the best of several worlds."

Her life is significant today, Father Dirvin said, "because she appeals to the ordinary person."

She undertook no extraordinary ascetical practice~ and her charity was such as can be pl"acticed in ordinary everyday living.

She had "an abiding faith that God would see ,her through," the priest said, "a faith that her efforts to work out a system of education for God and the Church would succeed."

Tremendous Obedien.ce Her life was characterized by a "tremendous obedience, which is a dirty word in some circles today, to those she considered God's guides for her," Father Dirvin said.

She was born in New York City on Aug, 28, 1774, a week

before the first Continental Con- of h:~r f.ather-in-Iaw ruined the gress met at Carpenter's Hall in Seton shipping and her husPhiladelphia. Her father, Dr. band's nealth hegan to fai'!. In Richard 'Bayley, was a distin- Octo':ler, following a. physician's guished p!)Yllician and surgeon. recommendation, the couple and New York City's fiirst health of- their eldest daughter set out on ficer and professor of anatomy a sea voyage to Italy, where at King's College (now Columbia frien:ls and business associates, University). Her mother, Cather- the Filicchi of Leghorn, had Of-ine -Charlton, was the daughter feret. them hospitality. of an Episcopal clergyman who DE,tained in a quarantine hoswas once a curate at Trinity pital offshore, William Seton, Church on Wall Street, the oldsuffe:,ing .from tuberculosis, grew est Episcopal parish in the city. worse. He died at the Filicchi Of French Huguenot ancestry, hOmE) on iDec. 27.

Elizabeth Seton was a descendMrs. Seton and her daughter ant of the founders of New Rochelle and was related by. blood staYE,d with the Filicchi brothers, or marriage to New York's first Antonio a:nd Filippo, where .they awaited a return ship for families.

Her mother died when Eliza- the United States. The devout beth -was three and her father remarried. ' Elizabeth attended -Mama Pompelion's finishing school, where she learned to play the piano and to speak French. She also acquired a taste for theatergoing and a life-long love of dancing.

In April, .1789, she and her farher were among the Wall Street crowd that saw George Washington sworn in as the first President of the United States.

Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and other notables were neighbors, friends and acquaintances.

Considered "the most beautiful girl in New York CitY,"according to her biographer, Father Dirvin, she married William Magee Seton, son of a wealthy importer, on Jan. U, 1794.

GOOd Exw:nple The couple had two sons _and three daughters. Mrs. Seton enjoyed theater-going and dances and served as treasurer of a soSHRINE: The Mother Seciety formed to aid destitute widton :;tained glass window is ows. She was a parishioner of tt:.e National Shrine of the in Episcopalian路 Trinity Church.

Imrr..aculate Conception in By 1803 the war between Englan.d- and 'France and the de~th Wa~ hingto_n.

and pratical Catho'licism of the FiHcchis, members of the Italian nobility, impressed Mrs. Seton.

'She began learning "about Catholicism in Il:aly, continued on her return to New York, and was received into t'he Catholic Church on March 14, 1805, by Father Matthew O'Brien, pastor of St. 'Peter's Church, Barclay Street.

Conversion' Oppose:l Many friends and relatives vehemently opposed her decision and ostracized her after her conversion. Her godmother disin-路 herited her. Opposition to her conversion contri'but!d to the failure of her -atempts to start a school and boardinghouse. She was reduced to financial dependance on friends who remained loyal.

'In 1807, Farher William DuBourg, superior of the Sulpicians in Baltimore, Md., invIted her to found a school for girls near St. Mary's Seminary, Paca St. She was joined there by several other women and 'began to think 路of founding a community of Religious w,omen.

There she adopted as a (.permanent rule a modification of the one given th'e ,first Sisters of Charity in France 'by S1. Vincent de Paul. She tra,ined teach, ers imd prepared textbooks, reHgious translated French books, wrote several spiritual treatises, and visited the poor ' and sick of the neighborhood, many of whom were blacks who became Catholics because of he;example. She remained a devoted mother.

Founded Schools

-Her schools. were successful . and the路 community grew. Convents were opened in Philadelphia in 1814 and in New Yorlt City in 1817.

As her health dedined after 1818, she remained act-ive and cheerful, saying "Afflictions are the step to heaven." A chill ago grawted the tuberculosis from which she suffered and she died on Jan. 4, 1821.

U.S. Catholic historian Msgr.

John Tracey Ellis said that ",Elizabeth Seton understood from ,the outset, and she practiced to -the end, the fundamental principle of the spiritual life Founds Community that if one is to live close to God Father DuBourg and Bishop he must give, and not receive."

John Carroll, first bishop and "The triumph of charity is archbishop of Baltimore, apthe great poem-of Elizabeth Seproved her plans and gave her a set of religious rules. Bishop ton," Pope John XX'III s'aid of Garroll received her religious her in 1959, and at her beatifivows, permitted her to adopt _ cation in 1963 he -highHghted the a religious habit and gave her ecumenical aspect of her life by calling her entry into the Cathothe title of "Mother." lic Ohurch an "enriching of the In June, -1809,' with four mem- treasure she already possessed." bers of her new community, he'r daughters, and two pupils from New Vice~Rector the Paca St. school, she moved to a site ,given th(~m in EmmitsROME (NC) - A priest of the burg, Md., where they opened Richmond, Va., diocese has been an academy for girls and a tui- named vice-rector of the North tion-free neighborhood school.

American College here. Father Living first in a small stone Charles Kelly, formerly director house whose roof leaked, they . of the college's advising procarried water from a spring and gram, succeeds Msgr. Lawrence did their laundry in a creek. Breslin, currently pastor of a Often they had little to eat. parish in Cincinnati.

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Bishops' Bicentennial Group Hails Canonization of Mother Seton WASHINGTON (NC)-Linking the forthcoming canoniz-ation of Blessed Mother Elizabeth Seton -to the U. S. bicentennial, Bishop Edward A. McCarthy of Phoenix, Ariz., caIled Mother Seton "an American of whom all Americans can be proud."

Bishop McCarthy, chairman of the subcommittee on U.S. Church history of U.S. Catholic bishops' Committee for the Bicentennial, said in a statement on be'half of the subcommittee, that "it seems a happy coincidence that this first native-born saint in our 200-year history should be a woman who was one of our very first citizens in point of time, just as she is now first in terms on authentic holiness:' The statement was issued after Pope Paul VI announced that Blessed Elizabeth Seton, foundress of the Sisters of Charity in the United States and one of the founders of the U.S. Catholic parochial school system, will be canonized next Sept. 14.

"As we receive the official news that our first American born saint will be Blessed Elizabeth Seton, we are reminded that this honor could hardly have come to anyone more genuinely American. Indeed, if we 'think ahead to the celebration of our national bicentennial, it seems a happy coincidence that this first native born saint in our 200-year history should be a woman who was one olf our very first citizen'S in point of time, just as she is now first in terms of authentic holiness.

Truly American "Born in New York City in 1774, just a few days before the First .Continental Congress met, she was a third gener.ation off-

spring of an American family.

She lived in New York throughout its six year British occupancy during the War of Independence and she was there too during the trying years after the American victory when our leaders struggled to hold this brand new nation together. She attended President Washington's inauguration there, and her future husband was the chairman for the first President's inaugural ball.

After her marriage she and her thusband entertained President Wa'shington and many other leading officials in' their New York home. Yet, as the economic problems which assailed the new country took their toll her 'husband's health and ,business failed and she was left a widow with five young children to support.

"Even after she had found a way to maintain herself and her family by operating a school in Maryland, her problems continued to parallel those of her country. She wrote, for example, of how difficult it was to find food for her students and for the women who had joined her as the first American Sisters of Charity.

"She died in 1821 just before Presi~ent Monroe served his second term and just as our country arrived at the point where H!3 independence was at last firmly enough established that the President could declare the famous Monroe Doctrine.

"Elizabeth Seton is truly' an American of whom all Americans can be proud. And, when we celebrate our national independenct in 1976 it is good to think that we will be able to point to her with pride as our first American born saint."

Nuns Appeal to Church to Help Superior Detained in Prague NBW YORK (NC) - After a year of futile approaches to the government of Czechoslovakia, two U. S. provinces of the School Sisters of St. Francis are appealing to U. S. Church authorities for help in releasing their superior general from detention in Prague to her usual residence in Rome.

Details of the case of Mother Eliska Pretschnerova, who normally resides in Rome, have been received here from members of the Pittsburgh province of the School Sisters of St. Francis.

But they would not specify to which leaders of the Church in the United States they have appealed.

Letters now being circulated relate that Mother Pretschnerova, a citizen of Czechoslovakia, was elected to ,her present office in December, 1970. At that time she was given permission by the Czechoslovak minister of culture to stay for one year in, Rome, together with Sister M. Luceta Macikova, who was concurrently named vicar general of the congregation. The permit was subsequently renewed.

In November, 1973, the two nuns requested authorization from the Ministry of Culture to remain in Rome until the end ¡of their terms in 1976, without the annual renewal. They were notified that if they would present

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Irish Clergy-IRA Meetings Called 'Worthwhile'

THE FIRST SCHOOL: In September, 1808, Elizabeth Bayley Seton opened the United States' first Catholic school for girls in this small house on Paca St. in Baltimore. Mother Seton also lived there. At a consistory Dec. 12, Pope Paul VI gave the go-ahead to the canonization of Mother Seton and five other persons~ NC Photo.

Association Prepares Statement On Catholic Press Philosophy

NEW YORK (NC)-A state- visions approved at the 1974 ment on the philosophy and the- Denver n'ational convention, alology of the Catholic press is lows individuals on the staffs of being prepared by a special com- member organizations to become themselves in Prague in person, mittee of the Catholic Press As- voting CPA members.

Jhey would receive the necessary sociation (OPA), it was anNominees for three vacancies documents within 15 days. They nounced here. on the OPA board of directors left Rome for Prague by plane John E. Fink, CPA, president . were reported to the board by on December 21, 1973. nominating committee, and executive vice-president of the The following day plainclothes Our Sunday Visitor, said after a chaired by Redemptorist Father police came to the House of meeting of the OPA board of di- Louis G. Miller.

Oharity in Prague, where they rectors here that the statement were spending the night, and will be submitted to the U. S. Catholic-League 'Summoned both to police head- bishops in the name of the edquarters for questioning. Mother itors in the Catholic press. Its Blasts Lampoon MII..;WAUKEE (NC) - The Pretschnerova was interrogated basic theme will be "Our Faith National Lampoon "deserves the for five hours, after only two Commitment;-' he said.

-Father Paul E. McKeever, ed- condemnation of alI fair-minded hours of sleep. 'The questions asked appeared to concentrate itor of the Long Island Catholic, persons" for "an incredibly scuron the activities of the Czecho- Rockville Centre, N. Y., diocesan rilous and vulgar attack on Protslovak SecretarIat of Religious paper, and former president of estant, Catholic and Jewish beSocieties during 1968 and 1969, the Oatholic Theological Society liefs," according to Stuart Hubwhen she served as secretary of of America, is preparing an ini- beH, executive director of the that organization. (It was sup- tial draft of the statement and. Catholic League for Religious pressed by the government in was named by Fink as chairman and Civil Rights. of a special committee of ed1971.) â&#x20AC;˘ In a statement released here itors that will evaluate and dis- HubbelI charged that the DecemQuestioned Again cuss the paper before the CPA's ber issue of the magazine All activities of the secretariat 1975 convention next May in "reaches a new low in ridiculing . had been conducted openly, the New York. tb~ religious beliefs and practices The CPA board of directors of most Americans. Even the letters contend, and all copies of various publioations and books met at the John XXliIl Center of atheistical arch-Nazi propaganissued were sent to the Czecho- Holy Family Church here for dist Dr. Joseph Goebbels in his slovak Ministry of Culture. The their annual winter meeting. The - heyday of religious abuse did not payments involved for the print- board received reports from 20 surpass the Lampoon's December' ing were taken care of by OPA committees, as well as issue."

Mother Preschnerova through a other business reports.

The league, he said, "is conbank where the secretariat had There are now 295 voting tacting more than a score of repan account. Since she left members of the association, ac- utable advertisers in this issue" Czechoslovakia at the end of cording to a report by Gerard E. in the belief that "no responsible 1970 for Italy, the nuns of her Sherry, CPA secretary. This to- concern would continue an adorder maintain, she had had no tal includes .133 newspapers, 104 vertising relationship which so opportunity to know what hap- magazines, nine general publish- grossly and offensively insults pened with the account books- ers and 49 staff members. Staff the Protestant, Catholic and Jewwhich have figured largely in her membership, a new category es- isb people of the American comrepeated interrogations. tablished this year in by-laws re- munity,"

BELFAST (NC)-A Church of Ireland (Anglican) bishop has described a recent meeting he and Protestant Church leaders held with leaders of the Provivisional IRA and its political counterpal't, the Sinn Fein party, "u very worthwhile exercise:' Other Protestant leaders who did not attend the meeting at Smyth's Hotel in the County Clare village of Feakle, in the Irish Republic, calIed it an "act of betrayal" and "folIy." .J3ut Church of Ireland Bishop Anthony Butler' of Conor in Northern Ireland defended his 'participation: "We are acting as individuals trying to bring about a peaceful settlement:' Bishop Butler said he did not expect an immediate ceasefir~ to result from the meeting. The clergymen "hope to be aoble to make further advances in the future," he said.

IRA sources in Belfast said the army council of the Provision'al IRA would soon meet to discuss the Clergymen's request for a ceasefire.

An IRA spokesman said that, although the churchmen were "listened to with great respect, the solution to the violence in Northern Ireland "lies in the 'hands of the British government:' He added: "P.t the moment, the attitude of our men is that they have lived-and diedthrough a long and bitter campaign and they will not lay down their arms on any mere promises or suggestion of reconcilation."

The meeting was held just before the announc~ment by Cardinal William Conway of Armagh, president of the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference and leaders of the Church of Ireland (Anglican) Presbyterian and Methodist churches of a joint campaign for peace. These four churches issued a statement after the Feakle meeting saying that the clergymen who a'rranged it "were not authorized by any ChUTch, Church body, or Ohurch leader."

The Rev. Ralph Baxter, secretary of the Irish Council of Churches, one of those present 'at the Feakle meeting, had said earlier that the meeting was "part of a general initiative taken by the Irish Council of Churches."

Parish Parade ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER A New Year's Eve party open to the public will begin at 8 P.M. Tuesday, Dec. 31 in the parish <:errter. Tickets are available from Mrs. Alice Gromada and music wiU be by Johnny Sowa and his Pol-kadots.

A celebration in honor of the burning of the parish debt will take place at 1 P.M. Sunday, Jan. 2(i at Venus de Milo restaurant. A debt of $700,000 has been ,retired in seven years.

Tickets for this event are also available from Mrs. Gromada.

A pilgrimage to Poland will be conducted in August of next year by Rev. Robert Kaszynski, pastor. Further information is available from the rectory.

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Spen~els Book PortralYs ,

Chinese Emperor Kall1g-hsi ;

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Can you think of any figure more r~mote and impersonal than an emperor of China? What we ~now of such personages IS that they were absolute rulers, :dressled in gorgeous robes, dwelling apart in a splendid' City forbidden to ordinary folk, and kowtowed tried to keep' a calm appearance, to by anyone' admitted to not showing himself disconcerted their awe-inspiring presence. by .any development. Where Impossible, then, to catch a w.rong-doing was obvious, his glimpse of the humanity, if any, behind all th'ese trappings, all this ritual. But Professor Jonathan D. Spence has made' it

principle was that "the ruler needs both Glarity and care in punishing: his intent must be to, punish in order to avoid the need ,for further punishing." , K"ang-hsi was on good terms with the JesUits who had estabBy lished themselves in China. He' 'was convince<I of the superiority I RT. REV. of Chinese ,ways, but realized that the West had useful things MSGR: to teach him and his people.

JOHN S. With the .tesuits he studied Western mathematics, the geomKENNEDY etry of Euclid, astronomy, the forging of cannons, the building of windmills, clocks and mechanics, the eight-note scale, playing possible for us to penetrate the the' harpsichord. The Jesuits mind, and learn something of the were especiaiIy adept in mapping informal ways, of one Chinese the empire. ' ,But their religion, then shared emperor, K'ang-hsi, who ruled over some 150,000,000 people by about 16,000 Chinese, puzzled from 1661 to 1722. him. He ask!!d one Jesuit "why In f,act, he brings us K'ang-hsi God had not forgiven his son in the emperor's own words. He without making him die,' but has gone through a mass of doc- though he tried to answer I had uments, notes, and letters in not understood him," K'ang-hsi's hand, and from them Worth Kn(],wing has made selections wh ich he The emperor was vexed with has pieced together. a papal legate who, it' appears, The result of his labors is Em- had been sent to control the peror of China (Knopf, 501 Mad" long-resident' Jesuits. He found ison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. the legate unfamiliar with every218 pages. Illustrated. $8.95), a thing ChinesEl, and said that "the book unusual1y handsome in ~superior' should De someone form .and interesting in content. whom I kneW to bl! experienced K'ang-shi was indeed a for- in Chinese life, lamguage, and midable figure, arrayed in gar-customs, who had been a resments which no one else· might ident 10 yeah or more. Othercopy, surrounded by a guard of wise multjpl~ mistakes and con10,000 men, absolute in author-. fusion would arise. I would not, ity, and almost slavishly defer- after all, sen~ Henkama to take red to by his subjects. up a similar office in Europe."

No Isolationist He is decidely worth knowing But he did not remain in iso- for' his intelligence, his solicitude lation. He travelled all over for his°peoplEl, his thoughtfulness China, to its farthest reaches toward his f~mily, his tender reand across its harshest land- ·gard ,for the -parents he had scapes. This he did to aequaint hardly known and for the grand. himself with his realm, and also mother who ,Jived on to a great to deal with rebels and othj:lr en- age. His pride walslegitimate, emies. He tells what he saw and and his wisdom not inconsiderdid along the way. able. Thanks to Professor Spence, He was endlessly curious, al- he emerges from a flat piece of ways eager to learn. He sought embroidery ~s a multi-dimensuggestions, and urged his offi-' - sionaI man. ' cials to gather these and report 'Book Publilihlng them to him. How, for eJl.~ample, Anyone curious about the inmight a river boat be im):troved? ner workings l of book publishing He believed that one should should read Hiram Haydn's litnever pretend in order to c:onceaI erateand inf~rmative Words and ignorance. .Faces (Harcourt, Brace and Jo-He was well aware of his pow- vanovich, 757 Third Ave., New ers as emperor, and could use York, N.Y. ,10017. 346 pages, them decisively. But he was '$8.95). Mr. Haydn, who died last equally aware of the conse- year, was ali l!uthor, editor of quences of errors he might make. The Americaq Scholar, and a top He acknowledged his own re- editor in several prestigious book sponsibility, and was not an aI'- publishing h6uses. bitrary ruler. ,He met, Qealt with, worked Calm Appearance with a great. number of famous He was wary of flatterY,saw people. among them writers, clearly that secrecy could be publishers, opinion-makers, and abused, disregarded ano,nymous other celebrities.

His views 'of generally ac-' communications. He had trouble with his subordinates, recogniz- claimed writers are unconvening that among them were self- tiona!. He ranked Hemingway promoters, boasters, mean men far below the common estimate._ hampering able ones, practition- Nabokov an~ Capote got short' ers of nepotism, excessive drink- shrift from him. On the other ers. ' hand, he was high on, certain In deaHng with difficulties, he novelists wljose output never

COMMENTS FROM CARDI~AL: Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York points out the bas relief of Blessed Elizabeth Bayley Seton on the front door of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City during a press conference. A microphone head blocks part of the statue. The cardinal expressed happiness that Mother Seton, a native of New York, would bE! canonized Sept. 14, 1975. The press conference preceded a Mass Dec. 12, marking the an.. nounceinent of the canonization. NC Photo. '

Cardinal Reflects Ion Mother Seton Sees Blessing for New ,York in Canonization NEW YORK (NC)-Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York has called the announcement of Mother Seton'!! forthcoming canonization "a special cause of joy here in this City of New York," where the memory and "the enduring educational and chari'~ahle programs of this great daughter of New York" have enriched the Church's history. ' In a statement issued after Pope Paul VI announced that Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton would be canonized next Sept. 14, the cardinal thanked God, who "chose Eli~'abeth Ann Seton, a native New Yorker, to be so great" a witiless to the faith, so effective an instrument of the Gospel message, so brilliant a! reflection of His good· ness."

Bom in New York City in 1774, Elizabeth Bayley" daugh· tel' of the city's first health officer, ::narried William Seton in 1794 and bore five children before his death' in 1803. won them critical recognition or acceptance.

Mr. Haydn was evidently a gifted, decent man, if a bit naive when dealing with Communist fran tel'S in the 1940s and 19505.

He knew his own particular professional world through and through, and is an excellent guide to its complexities, aburdities, and accomplishments.

fo~ this va:liant woman of God's Church" H~pital Work The Sisters of Charity of, St. Vincent de Paul of New York, founded by Mother Seton, have about 1,000 members in the Nev.' York archdiocese. They staff the College of Mt. St. Vincent, EHz.. abeth' Seton Junior College, St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan and Westchester, St. Vincent'~; Cardinal Cooke expressed the_ Hospiital on Staten Iscland, tht: hope that Mother Seton's canon- New York Foundling Hospital" ization would be "a blessing for St. Agatha's Home in Manuet, New York," that the works of St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, charity and education she began and over 60 elementary and sec.. "continue to serve the needs of ondary schools. the sick, the poor, the iqlmigrant, , Sister Margaret Dowling, pr~s .. the young and the aging in our midst," and that the Church of ident of the New York Sisters of New York "may blessed by <Charity, issued a statement say.. an abundance of vocations to the ing that next year, "which is the priesthood and the religious life'~ Holy Year, also International Women's Year, seems an ap.. to continue, her example. propriate time to can attention.

Woman of Hope to a great woman whose life can speak to many today."

The 'cal'dinal's statement Sister Margaret continued: "As, closed with the words: wife and mother, convert ·and.

"In Elizabeth Ann Seton, we foundress of a religious congre· have a saint for our times gation, a woman.. of faith steeped "In Elizabeth Ann Seton, we in the Gospel, she was always have a woman of faith, for a ready tO'respond to the needs time of doubt and uncertainty of her day. She was New Yorker "In Elizabeth Ann Seton, we' ·by birth and an American rooted have a woman of love for a time in the beginnings of our nation. of coldness and division "We who are her daughters "In Elizabeth Ann Seton, we feel a: great responsibility to live have a woman of hope for a time out her spirit today in our ready of crisis and discouragement response to human need as "Thanks be to God for this American women and women of saintly daughter of New York, the Church."

A convert to Catholicism in 1805, she founded a community of Sisters to which six presentday congregationi:', known as Daughters of Charity or Sisters of Charity, trace their origins.

She also established at Emmitsburg, Md., a tuition-free school that is considered the forerunner of the U. S. Catholic parochial school system. She died in 1821.

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Simplified Rites Inaugurate Opening of Holy Door for Holy Year VATICAN CITY (NC) - Renewal and reconciliation remained the ancient themes in the Christmas Eve inauguration of the 1975 Holy Year, but the ancient ceremony opening the Holy Door was streamlined and simplified for a worldwide television audience.

The ceremonial opening of the Holy Door into 51. Peter's Basilica by Pope Paul was reduced to about half an hour, far shorter than the elaborate liturgies with which Pope Pius XII opened the Holy Door for the 1950 Holy Year. But the central act of the ceremony remained the same: the symbolic tapping of the door with a hammer. And it retained a certain Roman splendor and sense of the spectacular.

The Holy Door, a huge marble slab facing the atrium or front porch of St. Peter's, -had already been loosened from the moorings

that had held it fast for the past quarter-century. An inner set of bronze doors had also been taken away.

Homecoming Hymn

<Block and tackle had already been set in place to enable the great stone door to swing away at the tap of the Pope's hammer, symbolizing the Church's forgiveness of sin through God's power. The glittering gilt interior of the majestic basilica, beckonbig through the newly opened door, has always symbolized God's welcome home to his forgiven, reconciled, renewed children. And the Gloria in Excelsis

Deo, intoned in Latin by the Pope, was meant as a homecoming hymn of praise.

The renowned Italian movie director Franco Zeferelli took charge of the television production of the opening ceremonies.

He worked closely with Vatican officials and liturgists.

Only Madagascar (pleading poverty) and Cuba had decided not to pick up directly the television transmissions, which went via satellite.

The opening prayers, centered on renewal and reconciliation, were written for broadcast in ,dozens of languages.

Al1 cardinals present in Rome were summoned to the ceremonies. Members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy Sec and their wives, were also invited.

Greetings to World After his Midnight Mass of 'Christmas, the Pope celebrated Mass on Christmas Day in 51.

Peter's before delivering his Christmas greetings to the world and his traditional blessing "Urbi et Orbi"-to the city (of Rome) and to the world. ' The Pope ordered three cardinal legates to open the holy doors at Rome's three other ma-

Health Director Scores Budget Cut Proposals WASHINGTON (NC) - Cutbacks proposed by President Gerald Ford in Medicare, Medicaid and the Food Stamp programs are "socially unjust," the director of the U.S. Catholic Confercnce Division of Health Affairs told the President in a letter.

Pope Addresses Canadian.Bishops On Conciliation

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"These proposals to reduce spending would be most costly to those already hardest hit by inflation-the poor and the elder,ly," according to Sister Virginia Schwager, health affairs director.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Sino. cere conversion to God's Will and an across-the-board spirit of reconciliation are the keys to achieving "respectful cohesion" between more progressive and more traditional elements in the Church, Pope Paul VI has told a group of Canadian bishops.

Speaking in French at a private audience for seven bishops from Quebec Province, Pope Paul said: "We supPClse that it is a delicate problem for you to find a way to maintain respectful cohesion among all the living Christian currents between tb:>se trying to set out on adventuresome paths, seeking an adequately-matured pace of "aggiornamento: and those thrown off course, often with good reason, by changes which seem insipid to them,"

The cutbacks were proposed as part of a major Administration package. Most of the cutbacks would take congressional action, which has been largely negative so far. But some programs can he reduced through executive action. Two key programs cut this way are Medicare and Food Stamps.

The Department of Agriculture, which administers the food program, at the direction of the President raised the percentage of monthly income which the poor would have to pay for food stamps. Those in the program had been paying an average of 23 per cent of monthly net income for stamps; they would now pay 30 per cent. Hardest hit are single people and childless couples.

God's Will The Pope praised the bishops' efforts to find a "pastoral ministry of thought, of sacrament and of action" capable of meeting contemporary needs. He said that Canada's religious situation is being profoundly influenced by the "deep evolution on a cultural, social and economic level" which he said Canada is undergoing.

He also encouraged the bishops', efforts at preparing young Christians in ,the faith. Referring to future Christian generations, the Pope asked: "How will they live their faith and their attachment to the Church? How will they pray?

How will they witness to the beatitudes in a society marked by material consumption? How will they look out for the welfare of the less fortunate in their own country of those in foreign lands?"

"Three issues are all at stake in the doctrinal and spiritual formation which is incumbent on you," the Pope told the bishops. Tbz seven bishops were in Rome to make their regular "ad lim ina" efforts to the Pope on the state of their dioceses and to pray at the tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul.

jor patriarchal basilicas. Cardinal Luigi Traglia, dean of the College of Cardinals was sent to 51. Paul's-outside-the-walls, Cardinal Ugo Poletti, vicar general of Rome, was sent to St. John Lateran, and Cardinal' Carlo Confalonieri to 51. Mary Major.

In preparation for Holy Year, the city of Rome had closed off to auto traffic the great avenue leading to St. Peter's. This switch in traffic patterns occasioned one of the most horrendous traffic snarls ever seenor heard - in this city of fast drivers and slow traffic.

Stealing, Begging

HOLY DOOR IS READIED: Workers in the Vatican begin dismantling the inner section of the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica so that medals commemorating Holy Years since 1:::00 can be removed. The door has been sealed since the last Holy Year, 1950. Pope Paul opened the door on Christmas Eve, officially beginning' the Holy Year. Television coverage gave the event a worldwide audience. NC Photo.

Rep. Edward Kock (D-N.Y.) said on the house floor this means that some persons living below the poverty level income of $194 a month would be denied food stamps. Single persons with a net income of between $154 and $194 a month who now pay $33 for $46 worth of food stamps would have to pay between $46.20 and $58.20 for the same amount of stamps.

One of the strongest attacks on the food stamp cutback has come from Sen. Edward Kennedy (D--Mass.), a member of the Senatc Committee on the Aging.

"Shoplifting, the purchasing of unsuitable substitute foods, and begging are but a few of the cruel and demoralizing practices many elderly are resorting to in order to eat somethinganything-during a given day," he said in a speech on the Senate floor. "The fact that this must go on in our nation is horrifying."

Legislation to block the food stamp cutback will be proposed soon, observers said.

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Concu'rs on Ambassa~lorls Criticism of United Na 1tions ,.

John A. Scali, U.S. Ambassador to the United'Nations, is a journalist by profession. As a young repbtter just back from the war, he observed the birth of the UN in 1945, and ever since that time he has been a strong supporter of the organization. So it must have hurt him to have to stand ally supported :the UN from the beginning, many Americans before the UN General As- very are now "questioning their besembly ,on Dec. _6 and warn Hef" in the Qrganization. "My the delegates in no uncertain terms that the recent trend toward dominance of the oll'ganization by a broad coalition of

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MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS developing countries is undermining the credihility of the OJ'ganization and seriously endanger: ing its future.

This was not the first time that the U. S. has expressed concern about the direction the UN is taking. A year ago,' the U. S. delegation criticized the growing tendency of the organization to adopt one-sided unrealistic resolutions that cannot be implemented. In the meantime, a~ Mr. Scali told the General Assembly in his recent address, things have gone from bad to worse. "What my delegation spoke of 12 months ago asa potential threat to this organization," he pomted out, unhappily has become today a clear and present danger."

Treatment of Israel Mr. Scali 'phrased his somber criticism of the UN majority in rather genera:l philosophical tel'ms, but it was clear that he was referring, among othe]' recent UN actions, to its shameful treatment of Israel during the recent debate in the General Assembly on the question of Palestine., It was had enough that the Assembly voted overwhelmingly to invite the ~alestinian terror' ist leader Yasir Arafat to address the Assembly, gave him the royal treatment, and Vlidly applauded him when, as a non· member of the UN, he had the temerity to. say, in threatening terms, that Israel might well be expelled from the UN. To make matters worse, the Assemblv President, the Forefgn Minister of Algeria, curbed the Israeli delegation's r,ight to speak during' ahe debate on the que!>tion of Palestine. His unconscionable ruling was predictably upheld by a large Assembly majority.

Generous Support These and a number of equally irresponsible actions taken by the majority during the recent meeting of the General Assembly left Ambassador Scali with. no alternative but to register a formal protest and to warn that any repetition of such offensive tactics by the majority will pose a serious threat to the very existence of the United Nations.

'Mr. ~cali felt obligated to remind the majority that, while the American people have loy-

country," he said, "(:annot participate effectively in the United' Nations with0l.lt the support of the American people and of the American Congress. For years they have provided that support generously. But I must tell you, honestly that I this support is eroding - in Qur Congress and among our peqple. Some of the foremost American champions of this organizatiqn are deeply dis'tressed at the, trend of recerit events.

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As suggested above, it must rection of Mrs. David J. Miller presenting one of their Christmas Carol Concerts. have been a patnfu'! experience fpr Mr. Scali, as a loyal friend and supporter; of the UN, to sound this warning, but he had no choice. What he said about the current attitude of the Amer-It is free and requires .no signs but relies primarily on POR~LAND (NC) Natural ican people with regard to the , f,amily planning is as reliable in medication or equipment (except body temperature readings.

UN was a simple statement of ,avoidin~ pregnancy as any meth- ,in some instances a thermom'Simply stated, natural 'family fact which, for the good of the od of artificial contraception eter). plann,ing methods are based on organization, had to be put on with the possible except,ion of -,-There are no hal'mful phys- the biological fact that women the record in terms that no mem- the pill, according to medical ical 01' psychological side effects are at ~ost times infertile, and ber nation could possibly misun- ' specialists and family counselors such ~as frequently result from that during these times sexual derstand. at a recent family planning work- artificial methods of contracep- intercourse cannot result in pregnancy. shop h(~re.

My own readtion to Ambassation.

The methods further rely on dor Scali's address is mixed. On Other claims made for 'natural ~ouples practicing natural the knowledge that the release the one hand, 'I agree with his family planning were: family .planning engage, in sex- of the egg cell from a woma'n's criticism of toe Assembly rna' -Its reliability does not de- ual relations as often as do those ovaries, which .results in tempojority and admire him for stating pend (,n a regular menstrual who use artificial contraception. rary fertility, is preceded and it so clearly and so forcefully. cycle.

-Periods of abstinence from accompanied by the presence of On the other h?nd, I was frightened by his speech, for, if it be ' -Thl~ method is simple, read.. sexual contact required by the mucus in the vagina and by true-as I think ,it is~that the ily learned and avaj1,able to all method enhance ratber .than di- changes in the pattern of basal minish love hetweEm husband body temperature. By' reading very existence pf the UN is be- women of child-bearing age. and wife. either or both of these natural ing endangered by a reckless ,and irresponsible kind of majority lP'overty Spreading -It is morally a<:ceptable to phenomena women can determine reliahly when intercourse rule, that's bad news for the nearly everyone. could result in pregnancy.

Wn SCluth Vietnam entire world community."

---.Because it is ba.sed on recThe "ovulation method" of v A11JCAN CITY (NC) - The "Deserve~ SUPl110rt archbishop of Saigon said in an ognition of natural signs that achieving or avoiding pregnaninterview with Vatican Radio precede and accompany ovula- cy was developed largely by the The great majority of the that South Vietnam is suffering tion, it is easily taught by Australian Dr. John Bil'lings, American people will undoubt- from a:l intensification of war, women even without an under- now dean of the clinical school edly concur in Mr., Scali's crit- unemployment and economic standing of its s'Cientifc basis. at St. Vincent's Hospital, Univericism of the UN, but they can -The method can be used by sity of Melbourne. . <:risis. take no comfort from, the '<Dr. Billings said his interest Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh women of all education levels. In thought that ,the organization in natural family planning develfact, it appears to be even more . may be entering into a period of said. that although the Paris' ac' successful in the underdeveloped oped out of a desire to assist cord of 1973 had brought peace decline. Moreover they would countries than in the Western couples who had emotional, inbe ill advised to let their legit- to North Vietnam, war has in- world. tellectual or theological objectensified in the South. imate criticism' of the current tions to artificial contraception.

The workshop, held at St. Vin"'Following the lessening of Assembly majority trap them into taking <In ,anti-UN position. aid, we have fallen into an eco- cent's Hospital and Medical CenMr. Scali warned against this nomic crisis with many families . tel' here, was sponsored. by the danger towards the end of his out of work and many without Northwest Natural Family Planrecent address. "I have not come ·<basic necessities. This has reper" ning Center at the hospital, in to the General Assembly today," <:ussioD!; on religiolls practice. oonjunction with the Human he said, "to suggest that 'the When people are poor, the hier- Life Center at St. John's 'UniverAmerican pE~ople are going to archy also does not have suffi- sity, Collegeville, Minn. turn away froll) the United Na- dent means for the practice of There are two principal but. tions. I believe' th;lt World War worship. Faced with the people's reliated systems of natural famH taught Ame~icans the tragic impoverishll)ent, the Church. is ily planning: the ovulation meth" cost of standing aside from an concerning itself with ways to od, which utilizes the mucus organized international effort to help peor families through this bring internatio'nal law and jus- economic crisis." tice to bear on' world problems.

ELIECTRICAL ... In the months ahead, I will City Problems . Co."acton do all -in my power tn persuade JERSZY CITY (NC) While my countrymen that the United Nations can return to the' path a group of clergymen of differ102 Shawomet AvenlJe the Charter has laid. out and that ent den:>minations were meeting Somerset, Mass. it can 'Continue, to serve the in- at St. John's Lutheran Church here to discuss greater involveTel. 674-4881 terests of all of its members." ment in the problems of the city, 3Yz room Apartment Ambasador Scali deserves the they were leaming about one of undivided supp6rt of the Amer- those problems -- parking - first 4Yz room Apartment 944 County St. ican people' in' his efforts to hand. During the meeting, each New Bedford Includes' heat, hot water, stav!!, reachieve this difficult goal. received a ticket for parking in frigerator and maintenance service.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH The Mystery and Magic of Christmas

Symbols in Catholic Worship Jesuit Father Walter Ong recently completed an extensive lecture tour through several Equatorial and West African countries. During that trip on a Sunday morning 'in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, he joined a congregation of 700 for their weekly Eucharist celebrated in Ewondo, one of the native languages.

Writing for the September 28 issue of "America," Father Ong described this Mass and offered a few observations.

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A choir of 30 men and 30 women supported by over a dozen musicians playing African instruments led the community in song. The liturgy lasted for nearly two hours, hut in Father Ong's view, the choir's most impressive moment came at the consecration. He writes: "Circling ·the altar to the gentle balaphon melody, from opposite directions in single file, the men and women of the choir spaced themselves alternately 10 or 12 feet apart at a little dis-

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tance around the altar, first standing, then kneeling and, following the consecration, bowing from a kneeling position all the way to the ground in the ancient African gesture of complete reverence-here to Jesus Christ, present on the altar. . . . This was not an expression of reverence or adoration: It simply was adoration, coming naturally from one's being."

Later in his article the Jesuit lecturer, reflecting on the great authenticity of this African celebration, maintained the Catholic faith resides in our subconscious as well as in our conconscious, though it plunges deeper than the subconscious, just as it reaches higher than reason.

Because of this, our faith "has called always for ceremony. which expresses more than it says and means more than it expresses."

Last week we spoke of sym· hols in Catholic life like wedding rings and the Christmas crib, items which evoke within us many conscious and unconscious responses. So, too, our Catholic worship is heavily symbolic, filled with words, objects and gestures similar to that African bow of adoration which express more than they say and mean more than they express.

Those who plan and execute liturgies need to keep these observations in mind.

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The Child Who' Waits

By Mary and James Kenny

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Two-year-old Eric is a biracial boy who was adopted this fall.

Because no one had room, there He was welcomed, not only by was a Child who was born in a bIs parents, but by his four-yearstable. A waiting child. Waiting old biracial brother, also adoptfor tbe world to take Him in. ed, and by his two big sisters Once upon a time there was who WeTe born into the family. a child whom nobody wanted.

The last three children deYou see, this child was too old scrihed above illustrate new to be cute. The child was crip- trends in adoption. All three are pled. Blind. The child was men- children who, without these new tally handicapped. The child was trends, probably would not have black. And there was no room permanent homes this Christmas. for him in the families of men.

Needs of Children Men's hearts and homes were alTraditionally adoption has ready filled with the good things paired childless couples and inof this world. fants with similar backgrounds Alan is eight years old and and physical makeups. But towill be celebrating his first day, babies for adoption are Christmas with his permanent, scarce. Contraception, abortion, family. Because his original fam- and the tendency for an unwed ily was unable to take care of mother to keep her infant have him, he has been in foster homes resulted in a dramatic decrease since early childhood. In Alan's in available infants. case there was little prospect At the same time there are that he could ever return to his children who wait years for a biological family. The courts rec- permanent adoptive home. ognized the facts in Alan's situOlder children Who have someation and released him for adop- how been passed over for adoption. He was eagerly adopted by tion, mentally or physically hanhis foster parents into his new, dicapped children, children of "forever" family. mixed race or minority races, ·Four-year-old Kim came to her and brothers and sisters who family from an orphanage in Vi- need to stay together are the etnam. She is half-Vietnamese children who are available for and half-caucasian. After much adoption. Often these children waiting, hoping, and paperwork, are in foster care or institutional Kim arrived in the United States care. Yet every child needs a perlast summer. She too will cele- manent loving home, and the brate her first Christmas in her earlier in life, the better. More Turn to Page Fourteen "forever" family.

MYSTERY AND MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS: But each Christmas I am reminded by the Gospel stories, the many cribs and stables, the familiar carols, the goodness of generous people, the Midnight Mass and the faith of my parents and friends that God's good news is greater than all the bad news I know. The Christ Child in the manger is depicted in this creche on display at Orly Airport, Paris. The figures were made in Madagascar (Malagasy Republic). NC Photo. ./

I remember when I lost the Christma's 'spirit. I was about 11 years .old. We had just finished decorating the Christmas tree.

The tinsel shimmered like icicles, .the ornaments glistened with tbe reflections of ·the colored lights. I sat staring at the colorful tree. I expe::ted something to happen inside me like in Christmases past. But nothing stirred.

department store Santa, ,at shiv-, ering with expectation when put to bed on Christmas eve, and at bursting with eagerness to see what 'Santa had brought.

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FR. CARL J. PFEIFER, S.J. The magic of Christmas just wasn't there anymore. A dull, empty feeling replaced the expected excitement. Warm tears slowly blurred the sparkling colors. I had lost the Christmas spirit.

I deeply felt what I had already learned earlier. Th,ere was no Santa Claus. No hell-ringing slt:id with prancing reindeer. No need to worry about the chimney or yearn for snow. The red stockings would be filled by ordinary human hands. Christmas was just another 'holiday with a big meal and friends dropping in.

The magic of Christmas was gone. I thought it was lost forever.

In a sense I guess I was right.

Nothing can really replace a child's excitement at visiting the

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throughout His ministry - the Kingdom of Peace is for those The history of God's people of who renew their lives in faith. the Old Covenant was marked by Final Gift centuries of war and strife-from His final gift to His apostles the invasion of the Promised Land under Joshua to the cam- was a wish for peace: "Peace is paigns of the kings, through exile my farewell to you, my peace is in Babylon and destruction by my gift to you; I do not give it the Roman Empire in 70 A.D. to you as the world gives peace" Understandably one of their (John 14:27). Have we ever truly chief longings for the age of the lived in this peace? Has the gift Messiah was peace: ''Then the of Christ, indeed the very mission wolf sbaH be a guest of the lamb, of Christ, gone unheeded these and .the leopard shall lie down past 20 centuries? Have all of with the kid; the calf and the our celebrations of Christmas, young lion shall browse togeth- with its hymns proclaiming er, with a little child to guide peace, ever been effective? As we approach. this Christmas of them" (Isaiah 11:6). . 1974, we ought to ask ourselves The age of peace was ushered these questions. in at the birth of Jesus. "Glory to Christianity, as much as JudaGod in high heaven, peace on ism before it,' has longed for earth to those on whom His peace, but has somehow never favor rests" (Luke 2:14). The found it. There has always ex-, Prince of peace came to offeT isted the curious mixture of the ·that long elusive gift of peace. cross and the sword - even John the Baptizer told people to though the Lord spoke directly prepare themselves for this favor against this when about to be by renewal of life: "Reform your confronted by His own cross: lives! The reign of God is at "Put back your sword where it hand" (Matthew 3:2). The same belongs. Th·ose who use the theme was repeated by Christ Turn to Page Fourteen

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I knew as a child. The childish excitement remained lost for me, but the marvel, the mystery, the wonder of Christmas began to fill the void. In fact the real meaning of Christmas was more unbelievable than what I had ever believed about Santa Claus.

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The Mystery and Magic of Christmas Continued from Page Thirteen Total Love for Humans Christmas means that within and beyond the sometimes cold, often cruel, very real world of daily experience is Someone who deeply cares about planet earth and each individual on it. ChriStmas says simply that God is so totally in love with humamj that He decided to join us as a hrother. Christmas means that wra can meet Him in our every experience. Christmas reminds us that all of reality has been touched and graced by ,a God who en tered our world as a man and remains with us "always and everywhere." That is more amazing than anything in my early <child'hood Christmas magic.

Matthew and Luke seem lost for words in trying to convey the incredible reality that took place in the town of Bethlehem nestled in the Judean hills not far from Jesusalem. To read their Gospel stories of Jesus' birth (Mt 1-2; Lk 1·2) is almost to reenter the childhood magic of Christmas-singin,g ange'ls in the night sky, simple shepherds hearing voices. in the still fields, mysterious wise men following a star out of the East. It is as if the writers were trying to stretch human language to its limits to reveal the most unbelievably good news mankind had ever heard: "God so loved the world that He sent His only Son ... born of a virgin wrapped in swaddling clothes lyl,ng in a manger . . . in Bethlehem of Judea."

Bad News; Good News I believe that. I beHeve it in spite of the frightening evidence to the contrary in a world torn by hatred, agonizing with starvation, hurting with inflation, and sometimes seeming tired of the struggle. As I read the morn-

ing paper and watch the evening news I find mostly bad news about a world at odds with itself, about people bent on hurting each other. I can't prove to anyone that wi,th us in the struggle against evil is a powerful God who cares enough to struggle in our midst as one of us.

But each Cnristma,s I a~ re- , minded by the Gospel stories, the many cribs and stables, the familar carols, the goodness of generous people, the Midnight Mass, and ~he faith of my parents and friends that God's good news is ,greater than all the bad news I know. The Christmas joy and excitement of children helps me realize more deeply how extraordinary our ordinary lives really are-lives graced by the presence of a loving God who in Jesus remains with IllS. Childlikeness I guess, as Jesus Himself once said, it takes the chi.1d in all of us to believe that. "Unless you become like a little child, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." I'm glad, looking back, that I once enjoyed~he magical SYMBOLISM: Our Catholic worship is heavily symbolvision of Christmas 'as a youngster. That vision of reality, to- ic, fiLed with words, objects and gestures similar to the gether with its painful temporary AfricE;n DOW of adoration which ,express more tha~ they say loss prepared me to believe and mean more than they express. A senior citizen is blessed something even more marvelous, that on a still night some two by a priest at S1. Helena Church in the Bronx where about hundred decades ago, in a stable 500 persons took part in a communal Anointing of the Sick. or cave in the Judeail 'hills, a NC P::lOtO. Jewish child was horn to a young woman,and that child was God Himself. I belie~e He' is s'till ~;ymbolsln with us, reaching out to us in pies will be clearer if we traI:lsConthued from Page Thirteen joys and sorrows, in the beauties late them into practical worship The~r should understand, for and tragedies lof nature, in successes and failures, in work and exampie, that ,the theme of a situations.

Consider the overall effect of play, and most of all in each Mass must not be overstated. If other when we struggle to love it is encessively stressed and re- a Sunday liturgy, or the personal each other a~ He loves us. I peated, tbe participants can't reactions to a particular homily, think I've foulid the real Christ· breath,~; they will feel closed in, the imposition ,of hands when a not frf e, unahle to move beyond siclc person is anointed, tbz sign mas Spirit. of peace and reconciliation at the obvious and literal.

Planners likewise would do Christmas Mass. The same cerewell to exercise care when de- mony, the identical words or gestures stimulate very differshe viewed the whole world, signing innovative features' for ent responses in different indio worship.

There is a distinction even other children and pets, betweE,n a gimmick, "a novel or viduals. with a imber, unsmiling stare.

Each person can, we· hope, tricky feature or detail," and 'Ii One-and-a.half~year-old Sharon make the symbol his or her own' symbol, "something cbosen to came to her permament home, and through it reach out to our represent something else."

The after four temporary homes. On invisible God, to the Savior who former. rather easily developed, the first day she was overmay help inject a certain fresh- heals, to Christ the King of peace whelmed ~y ~he newness and and, reconciliation. excitement {)f ~he change: By the nesshto an occasional liturgy, if handled with sensitivity and second day she withdrew in~o herself and sobbed as though ex- good taste. The latter, however" Replace Cracking pressing a deep grief which usu- while quite complicated in development, still exerts a much more Guadalupe Shrine ally comes only with age and life powerful impact upon worsbipMEX!I'CO CITY (NC)-Mexexperience. ers. ican Catholics will replace the Painful TransUion As ene theologian states: Sym- 265-year old national shrine to ,But if the early days of trans'are not created or d~­ Our Lady of Guadalupe, now bols ition 'are painf~I, time eventually stroyed by deliberate human ef-' that its sinking foundations have brings a reward. For the older fort.

They are born or they die. cracked the waIls dangerously. adopted chUd clearly blossoms, They .lcquire or lose power by The Mexican government apand the change to warmth and outgoingness is usually dramatic. a mysterious process that seems proved blueprints for the masThe sober stare turns into the beyond man's control and be- sive new structure, but placed a ceiling of $12 mil1ion on the first smile. The rigid distant baby yond iliscomprehension." ,Perl:aps these ,abstract princi- amount that can be raised by crawls into Mommy and Daddy's individuals' contributions. Under bed to snuggle. The grief-strickreform laws enacted in the 1860s en toddler launches into an abAnd for those of us who have all Church properti,es were nasurd exchange with her big . adoptE d a child, we find our own tionalized. 'brother: The present structure honorBrother: Are you a doggie, adoption as children of God an ing the appartions of Our Lady Sharon? easy comnarison. ~ Cen';uries ago a Child came to the Indian farmer Juan Diego Sharon: No. -Brother: Are you .a turtle? into a family and changed the in 1'531, was comph!ted in 1709.

Sharon: I'm' not a turtle. I'm course of the world. He gave Builders used the rocky grounds of the Tepeyac Hill and the softHimseJ to us forever.scared of turtles.

For all of us, His hirthday is er lands surrounding it to lay Brother: What are you, Sharon? . Sharon: I'm a butterfly. aspedal time. But for those the foundat:ions. Such uneven Obviously, all of us cannot parents and children who are support eventuaHy caused the adopt a child. But this is a sea- celebrating their first Christmas shrine to tilt forward and crack.

A centuries·old Marian tradi'son' when we can all stop and togethzr as a "forever" family, , .reflect on the needs of homeless there is an exceptional, signifi. tion brings millions each year to the shrine. cance. childr~n.

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The Child Who Waits; Continued from Page Thirteen and more agencies and adoptive parents themselves are con.' cerned about the needs of these, children.

New Approaches In order to get waiting children and loving families togeth· er, adoption agendes are taking new approaches. The waiting children are of.ten older" the adopting parents frequently have other children. and matching is disregarded. The important consideration is to find the right home for each child.

Adopting the older cholld is dramatically different from adopting an infant. Even a toddler who has been in a foster home or institution before being adopted has had a variety of experiences which he cannot express or share with his new ..doptive parents. Old attachments must fade while new ones are fashioned. This is not to say that such a child cannot become a delightful, happy child. 13ut it may take a while.

Children coming from institutions or foster homes often seem more distant or more regimented than the·average American child.

Nine-month-old Annie, who was right at the crawling and eKplor, ing stage, would put nothing in : her mouth-not even a cookie.

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Peace: Renewal Somehow we have not heard the Word of God properly, or we would have received His gift of peace by now. It may be a question of reliance-perhaps we depend too heavily on the kind of peace that the world offers, such as it is. We see peace in te~ms of qetente, demilitarized zones, peacekeeping troops, atomic arsenals that attempt to preserve the "balance of power."

But that kind of "peace" is not the gift wished for us by Jesus.

"I do not give it to you as the world gives peace." . Christ's peace is based on renewal of life. Listen to Paul's explanation of it: "It is He who is our peace, and who made ,the two of us" (gentiles and Jews) "one by breaking down the barrier of hostility _that kept us apart. In His own flesh He abolished the 'law with its commands and precepts, to create in Himself one new man from us who had been two and to make peace, reconciling hoth of us to God ih one body through His cross, which put that enmity to death" (Ephesians 2:14-16).

Peace: Reconciliation Peace through reconciliationthat should be our theme and our hope and our conviction this Christmas. The Second Vatican Council spoke of this 'kind of peace when ·it declared: "A firm determination to respect other men and peoples and their dignity, as well as the studied practice of brotherhood, are absolutely necessary for the establishment of peace. Hence peace is likewise the fruit of love, which goes beyond what justice can provide." ("Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World," par. 78) When looking at the complexi. ties of the world situation, we can -be tempted to throw up our hands in despair and with this action we abandon that "firm determination" which the Council calls for. But we can start somewhere-unless this Christmas it to pass like so many others before it. We can become at peace with ourselves as a good beginning. We can reconcUe ourselves with the Lord, turning our back on sin and embracing His mandate of love. . Peace as Reality , We can work for peace and harmony among those we are close to. Are all the members of our family at peace? It is the Lord's wish that we be at peace -what can we do in a positive manner this Christmas to bring it about? Could we swallow our pride and become peacemakers?

Paul encouraged his people to do this: "Get rid of a'll hitterness; all passion and anger, harsh words, slander,and malice of every kind. 'In place of these, be kind to one another, compassionate, and mutually forgiving, just as God has forgiven you in Christ." (Ephesians 4:31-32) If we could try for these (peace with ourselves and within our families), we could at least begin that "firm determination" to allow Christ's gift of peace to become a reality. May we pray for one another this Christmas that at long last we may respond to the call for peace with 'lives that are renewed in the Kingdom of re<;on~iliation.

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SCHOOLBOY SPORTS IN THE DIOCESE

By PETER 1. BARTEK Norton High Coach

Holiday Festival Tournaments • Spotlight ,Schoolboy Action Two holiday festivals tournaments spotlight this week's action on the schoolboy athletic scene. The Southestern Massachusetts University Basketball tournament will be played in Dartmouth on Friday and Saturday evenings while the .Second Annual Silver City Hockey tourney ney games will count in the league's standings. stages its quarter and semiHowever, the competition final games in Taunton. The hockey action will continue on Sunday with the ohampionship contest slated to commence at 4:00.

New Bedford High and crosstown adversary Holy Family will play the first game of tomorrow night's twinbill in Dartmouth.

Inter town rivals Bishop Stang and Dartmouth will meet in the nightcap. The losers will compete in the opening contest Saturday with the winners battling for the championship in the seoond game. The first game both evenings will start at 6:30.

All four teams in the tourney are members of the multi-team Southeastern Massachusetts Conference. New Bedford and Bishop Stang are in Di"ision 1. Dartmouth and Holy Family compete in Division II. None of the tour-

could be a harbinger of the season for the participants. New Bedford would like to come up with a strong showing to pave the way for league action where it is expected to challenge for the title. Stang will be trying to rebound from an early season set-back. Holy Family and Dartmouth both contenders in Division II will try to show the bigger schools that they can not be taken lightly.

One of the interesting pairings of the tourney matches New Bedford against Holy Family in the opening contest.. New Bedford is the largest school with a boy enrollment in grades 10-12 in exess of 1,200. Holy Family is one of the smallest schools witp. only about 150 boys in the school.

Trackmen Receive Little Recognition .

In Taunton the survivors of last week's preliminary games move on to the final rounds of competition beginning tomorrow. Defending champion Bishop Connolly High of Fa'll River is expected to have some difficulty hanging on .to its title.

Taunton looked very impressive in winning its game against Somerset. New Bedford and New Bedford Vocational are well balanced and can not be overlooked.

Outsiders Bridgewater-Raynham and Cardinal Spellman High of Brookton have the ability to wrestle the title away from the local contingents.

If the final rounds of action live up to expectations the spectators will be in for a holiday treat. Over 1,000 fans jammed the Taunton Family rink to watch last week's games and were not disappointed. Things should be more interesting from here on in as the combatants focus in on the championship.

IBasketball and hookey receive most of the publicity during the Winter montbs as the sohoolboys vie for league honors and state pl'ayoff berths. But, there is an-

other group of high school athletes who work as diligently with virtually no recognition. They are the boys who compete in Winter track.

Thirteen schools sponsor Winter track teams in the Southeastern Mass. Conference. All are recognized as being among the best in the Commonwealth. New Bedford, Barnstable, Falmouth, Somerset, Dartmouth, Attleboro and Msgr. Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High of Taunton are always powerful. Fairhaven, New Bellford Vocational, Bishop Stang, Dennis-Yarmouth, Dighton~Reho­ hoth, and Seekonk sometimes lack depth but never outstanding individual performers.

Football over shadows cross country in the Fall, basketball and hockey are more' popular than Winter track, baseball obscures the accomplishments of the tracksters. In spite of the lack of recognition they continue to toil in all kinds of weather.

Their love of the sport, Hie thrill of competition and the desire' to improve motivates them to carry on.

Surprises In Early Season, Hoop Games For those hardy track fans who wish to view a Winter meet the next league outing is schedIiled for January 2. Seekonk and Dartmouth will pair off aga,in-st each other while Attleboro and New Bedford meet simultaneously at New Bedford Vocational's track. Host Falmout~ t~kes on Somerset a.nd DennlS'Yarmouth tangles WIth yoke on the Cape. All. meets r.un In New Bedford begm at 3.15

while those run at Falmouth commence at 6:00.

IBack on the basketball trail the schoolboys wilf continue to wander through the next week and a half play non-league games. The early going has produced a few surprises which make for interesting speculation.

For example, in Southeastern Mass. Conference inter-div,isional games Norton beat Coyle by ten points, Coyle then defeated

CHRISTMAS PAGEANT IN MARION: The main tableau at St. Rita's Annual Christmas Pageant sponsored by the Parish CCD depicted the scene of the manger at Bethlehem with Richard Arthur in. the role of St. Joseph and Marsha Mendes as the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Meeting Stresses Listening to Christ FT. LAUDERDALE(NC~The emphasis during the recent meeting here of UNDA~USA, the U.S. branch of the international Catholic association for radio and television, was on "listening to Christ, listening to the needs of the world," said the or,ganiza-tion's pres'ident, Dominican Sister Maureen Rodgers.

The meeting, the third genera I assembly of the U. S. group, "ended on a very beautifUl, positive note," said Sister Rodgers, who is also director of radio and TV for the Detroit archdiocese.

At the concluding liturgy, IFather Agnellus Andrew, president of international UNDA (from the Latin word for "wave"), "rem'inded us of our duties as communicators to be reconcilers," she said.

Participants in the meeting "ironed out problems with internal procedures" pf the association, she said. The board of di-

Stang. Norton is a Division IV team, Coyle HI and Stang 1.

Bither the higher division schools took their opposition lightly or there are going to be some excellent games among the small schools this Winter.

Coaoh Lee Miller's Nauset five is o~f to another good start which may mean trouble for Cape and Island League opponents. Martha's Vineyard lostby only two to Stoughton. Coach Stan Kupiec, in his varsity debut as a head coach, saw his Bishop Connolly High Cougars win a squeaker over Seekonk. Coach Kupiec had a long and successful career as assistant coach at Durfee High.

What these scatterings of early season's results mean is anyone's guess. But if they are an indication of things to come some of the perennial powers could be in for a long cold Winter.

rectors elected four new officers to one-year terms. 'Phe four and Sister Rodgers form the executive committee of UNDA-USA. The four new officers are: vice president, Father Stephen Umhoefer, radio-TV director for the Madison, Wis., diocese; second vice president, Father David MacPherson, director of communications for the Covington, Ky., diocese; treasurer, Father George Schroeder, commu.nications director for the Duluth, Minn., di·

.Gowdy Receives Catholic Award CHEYENNE (NC)-Father Philip Colibraro, director of the Catholic information office for the Cheyenne diocese, announced that NBC sportscaster Curt Gowdy has been awarded the 1974 Golden Bronco Award for outstanding p~blic service.

Gowdy, a native of Wyoming, will be the first person to receive this recognition by the Catholic Information Office.

For four years, Gowdy has contributed his efforts on radio and television for the children of St. Joseph's Home in Torrington, Wyo. The home is Wyoming's only residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children.

Father Colibraro said ,that the Golden ,Bronco will be presented to Gowdy at a date to be announced in 1975.

Received by P'ope VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has received the new Austrian ambassador to the Holy See, Gordian Gudenus, who presented his credentials in private audience. Pope Paul spoke of the Church in Austria to the new am· bassador and recalled the long collaboration between Church and state in that country.

ocese; arid secretary, Servite Sister Patricia Kowalski, radio-TV director for the Omaha, Neb., diocese.

Sister Rodgers was elected president last May to fill the unexpired three-year term of Father Kenny Sweeney, who resigned to direct a retreat house in the Indianapolis archdiocese.

Msgr. Leonard F. Hurley, Washington, D. C., archdiocesan radio-TV director, was elected membership chairman and Robert Edwards, communications director of the Richmond, Va., diocese, was appointed editor of the association's six-times-a-year newsletter.

The board approved the formation, in cooperation with Canadian Catholic communicators, of UNDA-North America and empowered Sister Rodgers to speak on behalf of UNDA-USA in consultation with the executive committee.

So~cer

Star Joins New Kind of Team

VA11ICAN CITY (NC) - One of South America's favorite soccer players, Jorge Jimenez of La 'Paz's championship team, has joined another team as well: a team in a priestless parish where he and other laymen help ensure the parish's sacramental life.

Vatican Radio reported that Jimenez, a center on the soccer team of the Bolivian capital, is working in St. Joseph the Worker parish in the suburbs of La Paz. A priest visits the parish once a wek to celebrate Mass and, hear confessions.

Vatican Radio said the laymen of the parish team took a seminary training program in theology. They prepare fellow parishioners for the sacrament~, bring Communion to the sick and administer Baptism in cases of necessity.

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PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS: Personalities making news in 1974 included these people: Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty announces his memoirs; Mother Teresa ~isits United States; Father Robert Drinan calls for ::mpeachment; Mother Seton's canonization advanGes; Archbishop Joseph Bernardin

heads USCC-NCCB; President Gerald Ford sworn in; Father John Me·· Laughlin speaks for Nixon administration; President Richard Nixon re·· signs; Betty Hutton becomes Catholic; Juan Peron of Argentina dies; andl Cardinal John Krol steps dowlll as head of USCC-NCCB. NC Photos. 'J

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During the Third Week of Advent, a Penitential Service attracteCi nearly five hundred persons. Twelve priests flom the City and its environs served as confessors. A, special Mass was arranged for Catholic schoolchildren of the City, filling Saint Mary's specious church to capacity. Father Richard W. Bleaulieu, Chaplain of the Coyle..Cassidy HHgh School, acted as principal concelebron' and homilist for this Holy Year Mass.

Attleboro Area In the North Attleboro region Saint Mary's Church was the scene of a series of speciallyarranged evening Masses, each celebrated by a differen t priest of the area. Flather Normand J. Boulet assisted the local pastor, Father Cornelius J. Ke:iher, in planning the services. Deacons station_ed in area churches exercised their preaching office by delivering the Holy YeaI' homIly at. Masses during the North Attleboro-Ameboro regiolllal pro' grom. A similar program of evening Masses was schedluled at Saint Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis, the designated church for the Cape Cod area of the Diocese. Father James F. Greene, assistant at the parish and coordinator of the Advent program in the region, reported that priests from area parishBs acted _ as celebrants and homllists for the Holy.Year Masses.

New Bedford Area A program of weekly services focusing upon the theme of man's reconciliation, fil'st with

nature, then with neighbor, then within his own heart and soul, and 'finally with Almighty God, was conducted at Saint Lawrence Churth, the "pIlgrimage center" for the greater New Bedford area. Father John P. Driscoll, Pastor,' noted that use was made of visual aids, music and meditation in, the series of Scriptural l~turgical celebratiol]s which attracted hundreds· of worshippers; Area clergy assisted parish priests in hearing confessions for the Pentential, 'Service which concluded the series.

Shrine Father Andre Patenaude, M.S., Director of the LaSalette Shrine in Attleboro, a dl!signated "pilgrimage center," reported that literally thOusands of visitors, fromtbe area and from. as far ·away as Canada, made pIlgrim visits to the Shrine during the Advent SeaSon of special preparation for Holy Year 1975, gaining the Indulgence through participation in the special prayers prepared by the Holy Father.

Portuguese Speaking Bishop· Cronin, noting that many faithful of the Diocese have come in recent years from Portugal, made provision for special Holy Y~ar services in Portuguese. Mount Carmel Parish in New Bedford was the site for pilgrimage services, and the Pastor, Monsignor Luiz G. Mendonca, Vicar General of the Diocese and Chairman of the Diocesan Holy Year Committee, reported that the spacious church was filled to capa'city with devout pi'lgrims for the weekly Advent services.

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Mass, exposition of thE: Islands the North Attleboro Home The Diocese of Fall River en- brought the gifts to the. altar. Blessed Sacrament, Benediction com ilasses 'within its territory Because of the /~ase of access arid the recitation of the Holy two island communities, Nan- into the Home and into the Year prayers were features tucket and Martha's Vineyard. chapel, many elderly and handi- of special ceremonies at Cath..

Bishop Cronin specially desig- oapped persons from the neigh- olic Memorial Home in Fan nated churches on both islands borhood joined r~~sidents of the River and at Sacred Heart HomE: as "pilgrimage centers" for spe- Home for the services. Exposi- in New Bedford. Music by reli.. 'cial days during Advent, noting tion of the Blessed .Sacrament gious of the Carmelite Sisters that it would be extremely diffi- . was conducted, and Father Rob- for the Aged and Infirm and by cult for residents to share in the ert J. Carter celebrated Benedic· the Sisters of Charity of Quebec: graces and blessings of the sea' tion. was presented at the respective son if a voyage to the Dape or The senior priest in the New institutions, largest of the Diol;" New Bedford were necessary. Bedford area, by age and gy esan homes for elderly and in..

Monsignor Lester Hull, Pastor years of ordination, Monsignor firm residents. Father Alexis of Our Lady of the Isle Parish in Hugh A. Gallagher, joined Wygers, SS.ce., presided at the.

Nantucket, reported 'that the Father Clarence P. d'Entremont, New Bedford Home. Father Wil.. church was filled to capacity Chaplain, in celebrating the Holy liam J. Collard, Chaplain, was for the services held in Mid- Year devotions at Our Lady's joined, at the Fall River facility" Advent. On Martha's Vineyard, Haven in Fairhaven. Staff mem- . by several priests, residents of the oldest of the three parishes bers, religiolJs' and lay, joined the Home. His Excellency, the on the island, Sacred Heart residents and guests at the ser- Most Reverend James J. Gerrard, IChu r<:h in Oak Bluffs, was desig- vices. A. "pilgrimage procession'" Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese" nated as a special pilgrimage preceded t-he special devotions and a resident of the Catholic I; center. The Pastor, Father James at Marian Manor in Taunton. Memorial Home, was homilist I W. Clark, and Fa.ther Paul Con- . Reverend Henry R. Canuel, for the Holy Year devotions.

I nolly, also sbationed on Martha's Chaplain,' celebrated the Holy Cathedral Vineyard, prepared a Holy Year Year Mass and led residents and service at which the choirs joined friends in participation in the Father Barry W. Wall, coor.. to }:resent particularly appropri- Indulgen'ce. dinator for Holy Year celebra.. ate musical accompaniment to tions in the greater Fall River the worship of a large congregaDominican tertiaries from the area, Assistant at Saint Mary's tion greater F'all River area partic- Cathedral in the See City, re..

Homes ipated with the Dominican Sis- ported that worshippers at the T:le chapels of six. Diocesan ters, the patients and family Shrine Day observances through· homes for elderly and skkly members, at Holy Year rites at out Advent at the Cathedral par.. residents were designated by the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop ticipated in the Holy Year. de..

Bishop Cronin as extraordinary Home in Fall River. Sister Mary votions. The Cathedral had beEm "pilgrimage centers." This facet Christopher, .O.·P., Superior, re- the site for a series of Diocesan' of 'the general Diocesan program ported that exposition . of the wide pligrimage visits and pro· of preparation for Holy Year 'Blessed Sacrament folowed the grams earlier during the Dioc19ni was widely acclaimed as a special Holy Year Mass. Priests esan program of preparation fOlr , complete success. Sister Thomas from the vicinity joined the Holy Year 1975. Monsignor John More, O.P., administrator of Ma- 'Chaplain, Monsignor Thomas J. J. Regan, Rector of the. Cathe- I don:la Manor in North Attleboro, . Harrington, in conducting the dral, noted that services through- ' described the Holy Year program services. 'Benediction of the out the entire year I;1ad provided as "simply beautiful." Father Blessed Sacrament was cel- literally thousands of Diocesan Hu~h McIsaac c~lebrated the ebraed by the Pastor of nearby ,faithful with an opportunity to Mass at which a unique offer- 'Saint Patrick's Parish, Father share in the Holy Year Indultory procession of residents of James F. Kenne~'. gence.

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